Ms. Almonte & Mr.Henry's class by Yolarny Almonte-Bonilla https://padlet.com/yolarny31922/gx1c0c1vsq Class Today we are going to learn about Figurative Language. en-us 2014-03-25 13:46:49 UTC 2023-03-18 15:04:21 UTC hello@padlet.com http://d262le4z25sx36.cloudfront.net/portraits/earth.jpg                                                                                                                                                                    Figurative Language  yolarny31922 https://padlet.com/yolarny31922/gx1c0c1vsq/wish/24353587 Definition:

Figurative language used by writers to produce images in readers' minds and to express ideas in fresh, vivid, and imaginative ways. Figurative language is a word or phrase that departs from everyday literal language for the sake of comparison, emphasis, clarity, or freshness. Metaphor and Simile are the two most commonly used figures of speech, but things like Hyperbole, synecdoche, puns, and personification are also figures of speech. There are different types of Figurative Language, Today we are going to learn 5 of them.

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A comparison of two things using like or as, for example :

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a deliberate exaggeration used for effect, for Example :

"Is so hot even the sun is sweating"



]]> 2014-03-26 13:20:38 UTC https://padlet.com/yolarny31922/gx1c0c1vsq/wish/24457544                         Metaphor  yolarny31922 https://padlet.com/yolarny31922/gx1c0c1vsq/wish/24462167 A direct comparison of two different things, For example:


"My binder is an overflowing sea of papers."

]]> 2014-03-26 13:48:59 UTC https://padlet.com/yolarny31922/gx1c0c1vsq/wish/24462167                  Onomatopoeia  yolarny31922 https://padlet.com/yolarny31922/gx1c0c1vsq/wish/24462994 the use of words that sound like what they mean, such as "hiss," "buzz," "slam," and "boom", For Example:

"The thump, boom, bang of my sister hitting tennis balls against our garage door was very irritating."

]]> 2014-03-26 13:54:28 UTC https://padlet.com/yolarny31922/gx1c0c1vsq/wish/24462994                    Personification yolarny31922 https://padlet.com/yolarny31922/gx1c0c1vsq/wish/24463313


A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics, for example :

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