Figurative language U4
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DAVID GARCIA
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Figurative language
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Figurative language
Figurative language creates comparisons by linking the senses and the concrete to abstract ideas. Words or phrases are used in a non-literal way for particular effect, for example simile, metaphor, personification.
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Figurative language
A simile is a figure of speech that compares two usually dissimilar things. The comparison uses like, as or as if.
He is as good as gold
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Figurative language
A metaphor makes a resemblance between one thing and another declared by suggesting that one thing is another. Metaphors are common in spoken and written language.
My fingers are ice
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Figurative language
A personification is a figure of speech which attributes human characteristics to abstractions such as love or things.
The trees sighed and moaned in the wind
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Figurative language
Listen to 4 sentences. In each sentence you are going to listen the following phraes.
pull it off
in the dark
a hot topic
makes it
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Sentence 1: Pull it off
To succeed in do something
To separate and object from another object
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Sentence 2: in the dark
Without light
Without knowledge
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Sentence 3: a hot topic
A subject related to heat
A new and exciting subject
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Sentence 4: makes it
Succeeds at something
Creates something
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Word Power
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Word Power: Dark
Search online for the meaning of the following expressions:
a short in the dark
a dark horse
pitch dark
dark side (of someone or something)
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A dark horse means
Completely dark
In a state of ignorance
A candidate or competitor about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins or succeeds.
An attempt that has little chance for success
The negative, troubled, or antagonistic part of someone or something that is usually kept concealed
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Dark side means
Completely dark
In a state of ignorance
The negative, troubled, or antagonistic part of someone or something that is usually kept concealed
An attempt that has little chance for success
A candidate or competitor about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins or succeeds.
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A short in the dark means
The negative, troubled, or antagonistic part of someone or something that is usually kept concealed
An attempt that has little chance for success
In a state of ignorance
A candidate or competitor about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins or succeeds.
Completely dark
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Pitch dark means
The negative, troubled, or antagonistic part of someone or something that is usually kept concealed
An attempt that has little chance for success
In a state of ignorance
A candidate or competitor about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins or succeeds.
Completely dark
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Multiple Choice
In the dark means
The negative, troubled, or antagonistic part of someone or something that is usually kept concealed
In a state of ignorance
An attempt that has little chance for success
A candidate or competitor about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins or succeeds.
Completely dark
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