Figurative Language

How is it build?

How many stanzas?

How many lines?

Shape? Length?

Single Words/Design

Punctuation, . ! ! "--" -

End Rhyme

Rhythm

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

Meter

Sight

Sound

Taste

Smell

Touch

Lesson

Message

Moral

Theme

(LMMT)

What lesson did the reader learn?

Authors use it to help readers form images in their minds.

Figurative Language helps readers understand something unfamiliar with something familiar.

Figurative Language is found in fictional stories, dramas, and poetry.

You begin telling her that it was a big dog.

She asks- How big?

What your mom is asking for is some help visualizing the dog that was chasing you.

She wasn't there, so she wants you to add some more description to help her get a picture in her mind.

 When writers add details to help readers form mental pictures, they are using imagery.

Good writers and good story tellers do this by adding figurative language to their descriptions to help readers or listeners form images in their minds.

You could use a simile and say that the dog was like Mr. Green’s mastiff at the end of the block.