Figurative Language
Overview
This is a quick resource to introduce students to the concept of figurative language. Students will be introduced to five of the most common examples of figurative language and look at an example of each.
Figurative Language
Figurative Language
Figurative Language is not meant to be taken literally. If someone told you to jump off a clip, would leap to your demise? NO! And neither would they want you to. They simply want you to know that they are not happy with you and would like for you to leave them alone. This is an example of figurative language. Here a five terms to familiarize yourself with.
- Simile: a comparison between two things using the words "like" or "as"
- example: My mother is like a saint. She is happy to help anyone in need.
- Metaphor: comparing two things by calling something something else without using "like" or "as"
- example: My mother is a saint. He happily helps anyone in need.
- Hyperbole: using extreme exageration to get your point across
- I am so tired, I could sleep for 10,000 days!
- Personification: giving human qualities to something that is not human
- The chair screamed as put all of my weight on it!
- Idiom: a commonly used expression that has a totally different meaning from what it says.
- When I met the girl's mother, I soon realized that the apple doesn'f fall far from the tree.