Literal Language: Exact meaning of words
(“Go jump off a bridge” literally means you would and
jump!)
Figurative Language: describing something by comparing it with
something else (“Go jump off a bridge” figuratively may mean,
leave me alone, you’re not telling the truth…..)
Examples of Figurative Language:
Simile: A comparison using “like” or “As”
Ex. Lennie was as strong as an ox.
Metaphor: A comparison NOT using “like” or “As”
Ex. Lennie was an ox.
Lennie was a tank.
Personification: The attribution of a personal nature or human
characteristics to something nonhuman
Ex. The engine purred.
feline and cannot pur!)
(Engines are not
Ex. The wind howled.
Idioms: Figures of speech that belong to a special region, time,
activity, or occupation
Ex. Ski terms: Gaper, Pow-Pow, Shredding,
Scorpion (people in the South would probably not know what these
mean!)
Ex. Football terms: Pig skin, hike, turnaround