Figurative Language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K9pd6h9JT0
Authors use figurative language in their writing to create a
picture in the reader’s mind.
Figurative Language gives a meaning that goes beyond the
exact meaning of the words used in order to achieve a special
effect.
Imagery
words or phrases that appeal to any sense or
combination of senses.
The Storm
Looks like a mud puddle in the sky
and smells like mouldy leather
It sounds like a giant’s stomach rumbling
and feels like being turned inside out
Stanza
a grouping of two or more lines of a poem in terms of length, metrical form,
or rhyme scheme
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I’ve heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
it asked a crumb of me.
-Emily Dickinson
Types of Figurative Language/ Poetic
Devices
SIMILE
METAPHOR
HYPERBOLE
Compares two unlike
things using the words
“like” or “as”
Compares two objects
not using “like” or “as”
An obvious
exaggeration used to
make a point, and is
used for expressive or
comic effect
My momma always said,
“Life was like a box of
chocolates…”
Life is your restaurant
and I’m your maitre’d.
It’s so fluffy I’m gonna
die!
Types of Figurative Language/ Poetic
Devices
ONOMATOPOEIA
PERSONIFICATION
The use of words which
imitate sound
Giving human qualities
to non-human objects
The repetition of the
Bang, crash, zap, hiss
The sun smiled down
on me.
Shining, shimmering,
splendid
ALLITERATION
first consonant sound
Types of Figurative Language/ Poetic
Devices
REPETITION
The repeating of words,
phrases, lines, or
stanzas
I could really use a wish right
now, a wish right now, a wish
right now
RHYME
The similarity of ending
sounds existing
between two or more
words.
Once I dive into these pages,
I may not come out for ages
ASSONANCE
The repetition of vowel
sounds in nearby
words; used to set the
mood
Listen to the crumbling
thunder of seas.
Now try to identify
hyperbole,
personification, simile,
metaphor, and alliteration
used in movies.
Here are two more places you
can practice at home!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LzMTjAqYd4
Figurative Language in Songs Quiz
Number your paper from 1-15, identify the type of poetic device in
each song.
(hyperbole,
personification,
metaphor,
repetition)
Notes on hyperbole,
simile, simile,
onomatopoeia,
personification,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LzMTjAqYd4
metaphor, alliteration
Figurative Language in Movies
Use handout, “Figurative Language Day 1” with this link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMSLgxj2dxk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMSLgxj2dxk
Figurative Language in Pop Culture
2014
Number your paper from 1-38
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S-uxMeNnt4