LITERAL & FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Alex M.
Cam M.
Gabbi C.
THE DIFFERENCE
LITERAL
FIGURATIVE
• words that do not
deviate from their
defined meaning.
• words, and
groups of words,
that exaggerate
or alter the usual
meanings of the
component
words.
TYPES OF FIGURATIVE MEANING
Metaphor
Simile
• A comparison that does
not use like or as
• A comparison using like
or as
• Ex. The lawyer was a
snake in the grass.
• Ex. The lawyer was as
wicked as a snake.
FIGURATIVE CONTINUED
Hyperbole
Personification
• An exaggeration
•
Giving an inanimate object
or an animal human
characteristics
•
Ex. The willow branches
waved in the dancing wind
as the brook babbled quietly.
• Ex. I’ve told you a billion
times to clean your
room.
SOMETIMES IT IS NECESSARY TO EXAMINE
CONTEXT
The man kicked the
bucket
FINDING LITERAL LANGUAGE IN A POEM
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
• Her eyes shone
like the sun
• Skin as white as
snow
• Rosy cheeks
• Voice that sounds
like a melody
• Like a goddess
FIND THE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN A
POEM
From childhood's hour I have not
been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not
taken
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
My sorrow; I could not awaken
As it passed me flying by,
My heart to joy at the same tone;
From the thunder and the storm,
And all I loved, I loved alone.
And the cloud that took the form
Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
Of a demon in my view.
From every depth of good and ill
•
Alone by Edgar Allen Poe
***“soldier” by Gavin Degraw***
Find literal and figurative meaning in songs
LISTENING ACTIVITY
Upgrade the diction of these sentences using figurative language
YOUR TURN
JOHN IS VERY FAST.
THE STAIRS CREAKED.
MY COMPUTER IS SLOW.
SUMMARY
• What is Figurative language?
• What is Literal language?
• What is the difference between metaphors and similes?
• Give and example of personification.
• Give an example of a Hyperbole.
PUNS
• A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a
word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but
have different meanings.
Figure out these visual puns
Raise your hand
If you are right you get a piece of candy
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