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Figurative LanguageBy Sara Johnson
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Subject: Language Arts
Grade Level: 8th grade
Educational Purpose: To teach students the different types of figurative language used in literature.
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What is Figurative Language?
• The writer or speaker describes something through the use of unusual comparisons, for effect, interest, and to make things clearer.
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Alliteration• The repetition of
a consonant sound at the beginning of words.
• Used to place emphasis on words.
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Ex:Touch each object you want to
touch as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail.
--Helen Keller, “The Seeing Little”
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Ex:Touch each object you want to
touch as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail.
--Helen Keller, “The Seeing Little”
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Now you try!
There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t
learned nothing.
--Lorraine Hansbury, A Raisin in the Sun
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Now you try!
There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t
learned nothing.
--Lorraine Hansbury, A Raisin in the Sun
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Assonance• The repetition of a vowel
sound within words.
• Used to reinforce meanings of words and create moods.
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Ex:Poetry is old, ancient, goes
back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how
and why the first poems came.
-- Carl Sandburg, Early Moon
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Ex:Poetry is old, ancient, goes
back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how
and why the first poems came.
-- Carl Sandburg, Early Moon
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Your Turn!
And so, all the night tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride.
-- Edgar Allan Poe, “Annabel Lee”
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Your Turn!
And so, all the night tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride.
-- Edgar Allan Poe, “Annabel Lee”
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Onomatopoeia• The use of words to imitate
sounds.
• Examples:• Bang• Pop•Hiss
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Can you think of some examples of
onomatopoeia?