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Figurative Language

Figurative Language. Feature Menu. What Is Figurative Language? Figures of Speech Simile Metaphor Personification Review Practice. What Is Figurative Language?. Figurative language is language based on some sort of comparison that is not literally true.

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Figurative Language

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  1. Figurative Language Feature Menu • What Is Figurative Language? • Figures of Speech • Simile • Metaphor • Personification • Review • Practice

  2. What Is Figurative Language? Figurative language is language based on some sort of comparison that is not literally true. Suzie’s endless gossiping droned in our ears like the buzzing of a bee. =

  3. What Is Figurative Language? Figurative language • is a natural part of everyday speech • is the most important means of imaginative expression in poetry • makes us see ordinary objects in a new way My parents wouldn’t let me go out all last week. I was like a caged animal in my own house. [End of Section]

  4. Figures of Speech A figure of speech compares one thing to another, seemingly unlike thing. Three common figures of speech are • simile leaves twirled like dancers on the water • metaphor • personification the leaves were dancers twirling down the stream leaves danced on the water [End of Section]

  5. A wind comes from the north Blowing little flocks of birds Like spray across the town. from “Patience” by D. H. Lawrence Simile Similes use the word like, as, than, or resembles to compare two seemingly unlike things. [End of Section]

  6. I am soft sift In an hourglass from “The Wreck of the Deutschland” by Gerard Manley Hopkins Metaphor Metaphors compare two unlike things without using the connective like, as, than, or resembles. • Metaphors allow us to speak and write in a kind of imaginative shorthand.

  7. Somewhere the wind-flowers fling their heads back, Stirred by an impetuous wind. from “Study” by D. H. Lawrence Personification Personification is a figure of speech in which a nonhuman thing or abstract idea is talked about as if it were human. [End of Section] Personification in everyday speech

  8. Review Identify each of the following as a simile, metaphor, or personification. Quick Check Desolate winds that beat the doors of Heaven from “A Cradle Song” by W. B. Yeats And all hours long, the town Roars like a beast in a cave from “Apprehension” by D. H. Lawrence The field of cornflower yellow is a scarf at the neck of the copper sunburned woman from “Autumn Movement” by Carl Sandburg [End of Section]

  9. Practice Using each of the subjects below, write a figure of speech—a simile, a metaphor, or an instance of personification. Then, pick at least one subject of your own, and do the same. Example His homework stared up at him angrily. [End of Section]

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