Figurative Language Notes
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Suzanne Mattke
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Figurative Language Notes and Poetic Devices
Use this presentation to fill in the blanks on your notes. The underlined words on the screen are what is missing from your notes.
On the songs, underline the examples and answer any questions.
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Figurative Language
Figurative language is language that one must figure out.
Figurative language is the opposite of literal language, where the words convey meaning exactly as defined. In figurative language the reader must determine the writer’s intended meaning, as the words by themselves do not express it clearly. The listener or reader must “figure” out what is meant.
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Multiple Choice
True or False:
Figurative Language Figurative language is language. The listener or reader must “figure” out what is meant.
True
False
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Similes are comparisons between
two unlike things using the word
like or as.
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Multiple Choice
What does the following simile mean?
As the girl was humiliated, her cheeks turned as red as an apple.
She was embarrassed.
She was craving an apple.
She was feverish.
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Multiple Choice
Read the following sentence.
The truth was like a bad taste on his tongue.
What is the simile
his tongue
like a bad taste on his tongue.
the truth
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Multiple Choice
True or False: The two things that are being compared in a simile MUST be completely different.
True
False
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Multiple Choice
True or false:
Not every sentence that contains like or as is a simile.
True
False
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Read the lyrics to the song, "Mean" by Taylor Swift.
What is ONE example of a simile from the song?
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Multiple Choice
Which is an example of a simile from the song?
like knives, and swords and weapons
like I'm nothin'
calling me out when I'm wounded.
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Open Ended
In the simile below, what two things are being compared?
" You, with your words like knives and swords and weapons that you use agaist me..."
_____________ is being compared to ______________
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is a comparison between two different things without using the word like or as. “as.”
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Read the lyrics from "I'm already there
by "Lonestar."
Underline all the metaphors on your notes.
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Multiple Choice
Which is an example of a metaphor from the song?
"I'm the beat in your heart."
"I'm the moonlight shining down."
"I'm this whisper in the wind."
All of these are
Metaphors.
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An exaggeration that
cannot
possibly be true
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Read the following lyrics "One Thing," by One Direction.
Underline some examples of hyperbole in the song lyrics here.?
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Multiple Choice
What is an example of a hyperbole in this song?
A.)
"You keep making me weak...frozen...can't breathe."
B.)
" You got that one thing."
C.)
"Cause I'm dying to make you see."
A and C are BOTH hyperbole.
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giving human qualities
to nonhuman things
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Multiple Choice
True or False: the human quality must be completely unique to humans.
True
False
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Read the lyrics to "The Wind Cries Mary" by Jimi Hendrix.
Underline any examples of personification in the song.
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Open Ended
Write one example of personification in the song "Wind Cries Mary"
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a group of words whose collective
meaning is quite different than
their individual, literal meaning
Idioms are figurative expressions used so often that they become part of the language.
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Read the lyrics to Adele's song,
"Rolling in the Deep."
Can you see any idioms?
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Multiple Choice
Which one is an example of an idiom from the song?
"..throw your soul through every open door."
"count your blessings."
Into treasured gold.
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A reference to a person, place, or event from literature, sports, history, movies, or the arts.
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Multiple Choice
What is the allusion in the song, "Someday We'll Know" by New Radicals?
"If love can move a mountain"
" If I wasn't meant for you."
" Why Sampson loved Delilah"
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When situations or words contradict,
or go against, our expectations.
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Poetic Devices (Sound Devices)
These next 3 are really sound devices.
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A word that imitates
the sound it represents.
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Underline the onomatopoeia in the
lyrics.
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Multiple Choice
Which one of these is an example of an onomatopoeia in this song?
hillbilly
twang
guitar strings
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the repetition of the same
initial
consonant sound in a series
of words.
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Multiple Choice
What consonant sound is repeated? (What's the alliteration in this song?)
the "m" sound
the "s" sound
the "i" sound
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It is intentionally repeating words, sounds, phrases, or lines in order to emphasize a point or to show a certain feeling.
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Multiple Choice
In Taylor Swift's song, "Shake it Off," what word is repeated in repetition to create an effect?
baby
shake
haters
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