Figurative Language - Literally

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Figurative Language-Literally!

In this introduction to figurative language, you

will learn to see text on two levels, the literal and

the figurative creating new meaning.


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Getting Started

Choose whether you need to begin

with level 1 (Identify), level 2

(Analyze) or level 3 (Create).

In each level complete the activities

for similes, metaphors, and

personification before the

assessment.

Ask for help from Mrs. Petersonwhen you need it!

Goal: By the time you finish this

course, you will be able to identify

similes, metaphors, andpersonification, analyze text thatuses those devices and createyour own complex text using the

devices yourself!

For instructions and guidance throughoutthe lessons, click on the audio button.


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+"The pen is mightier than the sword," the

fountain pen taunted as it gleamed like a

dagger waiting to be grasped and thrust

into the heart of my topic. The weapon

willed me to pick it up, brandish it in the air,

and attack the essay with all the rhetorical

devices in my arsenal.

The pen gleamed like a dagger -

The weapon (pen) -

The pen taunted and the weapon willed -

For instructions and guidance throughout thelesson, click on the audio button.

Simile

Personification

Metaphor


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Similea comparison between two seemingly unlike

things or ideas using the words likeoras

Life

Literal

Ups anddowns

thrilling

Meaning Roller

coaster

Figurative

Life is like a roller coaster.


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things or ideas using the words like or as

Chris

Literal

Very fast Seemingly

invisible

Meaning The wind

Figurative

Chris was as fast as the

wind on that bike.


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Literal

Very still heavily

Meaning

Figurative

The puppy slept

like a log.

Click on thegreen boxes forthe answers!


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Twinkle, twinkle, little star; how I wonder what you areUp above the world so high; like a diamond in the sky!

Literal

Meaning

Figurative

http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/lyrics/twinkle.htm


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Simile Quizin each pair of phrases below, choose the simile

I missed at least

one. I need to

review similes.

I got them all

correct! I am

ready to move

to metaphors!

A BThat idea is as old as time itself. I like old ideas!

A He is very strong. B He is built like a tank.

A Her eyes are bright blue. B Her eyes gleamed like diamonds in the sun.

A That family is as poor as dirt, but they are as happy as clams.

B That family has very little, but they are happy anyway!


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Metaphora comparison of two seemingly unlike things or ideas

without a term of comparison (like, as)

Jaques: All the world's a stage, And all the men and womenmerely players; They have their exits and theirentrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, Hisacts being seven ages.As You Like It Act 2, scene 7, 139143

Literal terms: world, men and women

Figurative terms: stage, players

Meaning: The lives of people on the earth are compared to actorson a stage. We all have different stages in our lives (acts). We

come and go (entrances and exits) in and out of others lives. We

perform our parts (complete the tasks of our lives) before an

audience (others around us) before our final exit (death).

Shakespeare

http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/all-world-s-stage
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That test was a piece of cake.

Test

Literal

Sweet Easy

Meaning Piece

of Cake

Figurative


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Reading thatbook

Literal

Starting a fire

Beginningsomethingnew

Meaning Wood kindling(sticks, twigs)

Figurative

Reading that book kindled my interest in politics.


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You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.You make me happy when skies are grey.

Youll never know, dear, how much I love you.

Please dont take my sunshine away.

Literal

Brighten myday

Make mehappy

Meaning

Figurative


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Time Is MoneyYesterday is a canceled check;

tomorrow is a promissory note;

today is the only cash you have, so spend it

wisely.(Kay Lyons)

Literal

Meaning

Figurative

http://thinkexist.com/quotes/kay_lyons/


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Simile and Metaphor QuizIdentify each example as either a simile or a metaphor.

1. Baking is as easy as ABC.

2. Peter laughs like a hyena.

3. Education is your passport to success.

4. My brothers and I fought like cats and dogs.

5. Sally and Jane are two peas in a pod.

6. The ice-covered lake is as smooth as glass.

7. My husband is a baby when he is sick.

8. The boys attacked the pizza like ravenous wolves.

9. Mrs. Smith, the slave-driver, presented her list of tortures for

the semester in the form of a syllabus.

8. The lawyer grilled the witness on the stand.

Missed 4-10Need to review

Similes and

Metaphors

Missed 1-3

Need to review

Metaphors

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PersonificationA figure of speech in which one gives

human qualities to something non-human.

A little steam engine had a long train of cars to pull.

She went along very well till she came to a steep hill.

But then, no matter how hard she tried, she could not move the long train of cars.

She pulled and she pulled. She puffed and she puffed.

She backed and started off again. Choo! Choo!

But no! the cars would not go up the hill.

At last she left the train and started up the track alone.Do you think she had stopped working?

No, indeed! She was going for help.

"Surely I can find someone to help me," she thought

THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT

COULD (Watty Piper)

The little steam engine, although an object, is given human

qualities. It is given the pronoun she. The engine is given the

ability to think and reason. It is also given the ability to speak.

This is personification.

http://ah_coo.tripod.com/engine_that_could.htm


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When opportunity is knocking, open the door!

opportunity

Literal

Is available

Wants to come in

Needs to beinvited

Meaning Person knockingon a closed door

Figurative


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The baseball screamed all the way into the outfield.

Literal

Hit very hard

In pain

Scared offlying

Meaning

Figurative

P ifi ti


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The flowers waltzed in the gentle breeze.

Literal

Meaning

Figurative


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Review Sites

Grammar:

Quick and Dirty Tips

Similes and Metaphors

English Shorts:

Similie, Metaphor,

Personification

BrainPOP

Simile and Metaphor

Move to Final

Assessment inLesson 1:

Identify

Identify Introduction
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