Figurative Language
in F451
A1 & B2
General: Bell Ringer 10/23 & 26
What do you know about Figurative
language?
• I can identify and explain figurative language and
literary devices in F451.
B1 and B4 Agenda 10/26
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BR: Happiness Boys Worksheet
1. Public Education argument writing (handout)
2. Figurative Language graphic organizer (notes)
3. Figurative Language practice in groups
(handout)
HW: READ for next class
• I can analyze figurative language in F451.
B2 Agenda 10/26
• BR: (see 2nd slide)
• 1. Speaker
• 2. Finish text connection worksheet (students
kept or in the turn in drawer)
• 3. Public Education argument handout
• I can analyze text connections in F451.
• I can write an argument to support my claim
about education in F451.
What is Figurative Language?
●Figurative language is a style of
writing that authors use to help
readers visualize or picture the
events or characteristics in their
writing.
Examples Include:
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Imagery
Metaphor:
Comparing two things directly by calling
one thing the other.
Ex: My dad, a big, burly bear, hurled me
into the air when he saw me at the
airport.
Simile
●A simile is a comparison using “like”
or “as”
Ex: My dad hurled me into the air as if he were a
big, burly, bear.
Imagery:
Using language that describes sensory details
(tries to make you hear, smell, taste, feel, or see
the story)
In other words, it uses words to get the reader
to visualize something makes the message
more powerful.
Example: "...Montag had only an instant to
read a line, but it blazed in his mind for the
next minute as if stamped there by fiery
steel." p. 36
Personification:
Giving non-human things human qualities. This
evokes a variety of images for the reader.
Example: The moon awoke and flung off her
blanket of clouds.
B1 & B4 Advanced Assignment
(30 m):
Work in groups to identify the
figurative language devices listed
on your worksheet. Explain how
these devices help add deeper
meaning to the passage.