Figurative Language:
ELACC4L5: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
As a painter uses brushes and paint to create an
image, a writer also has tools to create an effect. One of these tools is the use of figurative language, where the writer changes or enhances the normal meaning of words. Figurative language is a tool to help readers visualize what is happening in a story!
Alliteration: Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of several words in a phrase (Robbie saw rabbits resting by roses.)
Assonance: the repetition of vowels sounds in nearby words (The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plains.)
Alliteration: Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of several words in a phrase (Robbie saw rabbits resting by roses.)
Hyperbole: An exaggeration (That building can touch the clouds.)
Idiom: An expression that cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements, as in
kick the bucket or under the weather.
Irony: The opposite of what is meant.
Metaphor: A comparison of two unlike things that suggests a similarity between the two items. It states one thing is another. (Love is a rose.)
Onomatopoeia: Words that sound like what they are. (POP! BAM! Slosh)
Personification: Making an inanimate object or animal act like a person
Puns: A word or words, which are formed or sounded alike, but have different meaning; to have more than one possible meaning. (Using that pencil is pointless.)
Simile: A comparison using "like" or "as" (She sings like an angel.)
image, a writer also has tools to create an effect. One of these tools is the use of figurative language, where the writer changes or enhances the normal meaning of words. Figurative language is a tool to help readers visualize what is happening in a story!
Alliteration: Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of several words in a phrase (Robbie saw rabbits resting by roses.)
Assonance: the repetition of vowels sounds in nearby words (The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plains.)
Alliteration: Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of several words in a phrase (Robbie saw rabbits resting by roses.)
Hyperbole: An exaggeration (That building can touch the clouds.)
Idiom: An expression that cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements, as in
kick the bucket or under the weather.
Irony: The opposite of what is meant.
Metaphor: A comparison of two unlike things that suggests a similarity between the two items. It states one thing is another. (Love is a rose.)
Onomatopoeia: Words that sound like what they are. (POP! BAM! Slosh)
Personification: Making an inanimate object or animal act like a person
Puns: A word or words, which are formed or sounded alike, but have different meaning; to have more than one possible meaning. (Using that pencil is pointless.)
Simile: A comparison using "like" or "as" (She sings like an angel.)
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