FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Language that uses words or
expressions with a meaning that is
different from the literal interpretation.
Metaphor
She is a walking dictionary.
The island is a heaven on earth.
➢ One thing is described as if it were another thing.
➢ Both its tenor and vehicle are specified
➢ The use of verb to be
a walking dictionary?
Simile
She is as blind as a bat.
The car is as huge as a mountain.
I am like a bird.
➢ a comparison of two unlike things using the
word like or as
Personification
Time is running out.
The hands of the clock are broken.
➢ A figurative language in which human qualities
and abilities are given to the non-humans
(making the non-humans seem human)
Time is running out?
Oxymoron
awfully good
true lies
deafening silence
living death
➢ A combination of words that have opposite or different
meanings.
➢ The combination of contradictory words
Hyperbole
➢ Exaggeration
I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse.
The boy runs faster than a bullet train.
The light is so bright, I could turn blind.
The food is so spicy, my ears are smoking.
Onomatopoeia
➢ word whose sound imitates the object being described