A Type of Rhetoric Figurative Language What is figurative language a way of saying something other than the literal meaning of the words Figurative Language Types of figurative language Connotation ID: 626195
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Figurative Language
A Type of RhetoricSlide2
Figurative Language
What is figurative language?
a way of saying something other than the literal meaning of the wordsSlide3
Figurative Language
Types of figurative language
Connotation
Imagery
Metaphors
Sounds
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Figurative Language
Connotation
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Figurative Language
The Connotation of Words
Euphemisms
Irony
SarcasmSlide6
Figurative Language
Euphemism
Use of “polite” or humorous words for a possibly controversial subject.
Very arbitrary
Death
Passed away, gone to puppy heaven
Pushing up daisies, keeled over
Kicked the bucket, bit the dustSlide7
Figurative Language
Irony
A result appears
to be incompatible
with normal expectations
Situational
Justice is BlindSlide8
Figurative Language
NICE HOUSE, BUDDY!
SARCASMSlide9
Figurative Language
Imagery
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Figurative Language
Wine dark sea
Rosy fingered dawn
-Homer
The Iliad
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Figurative Language
Ocean
Swan Road
Whale Road
King
Ring Giver
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Beowulf
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Figurative Language
METAPHORS
SIMILE
HYPERBOLE
PERSONIFICATION
PARADOX
SYMBOLISM
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SIMILE
A comparison using "Like" or "as."
Quick like bunny
As fast as a jack rabbit
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Figurative Language
HYPERBOLE
An exaggeration
“This is the fastest bike in the world!” said the kindergartener.
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PERSONIFICATION:
Making an inanimate object act like a person or animal
The sun lays its warm muzzle on my lap.
-Linda
Pastan
“I am Learning to Abandon the World”
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Figurative Language
PARADOX
Something that at first seems to contradict itself, but upon thought, doesn’t.
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
-Alexander Pope
The accidental mercy of machines
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Linda
Pastan
“The Answering Machine”Slide17
Figurative Language
SYMBOLISM
Something represents a completely different thing or idea.
Red roses=Love
Yellow roses=Friendship
“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.”
-Maya AngelouSlide18
Figurative Language
Sounds
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ALLITERATION
Repeated consonant sounds
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
World Wide Web Slide20
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ASSONANCE
Repeated vowel sounds
You do not do, you do not do
Any more, black shoe . . .
--Sylvia Plath “Daddy”
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Figurative Language
ONOMATOPOEIA
Words that sound like what they are
Pop
Bang
Smash
Kaboom
Burble
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Figurative Language
Figurative language uses connotation, imagery, metaphors, and sounds to convey meaning.
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Gaumond
2007Slide23
Figurative Language
The
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References
Pictures
http://www.theodora.com/wfb/photos/greece/greece3.jpg
http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/cblfineart_2005_7691753
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Photography/Images/POD/a/aurora-acadia-national-park-1042610-ga.jpg
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/object/5894734_neptune_sculpture.php?id=5894734
http://www.schwinnbike.com/products/bikes_detail.php?id=740
http://thunderyoga.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/Lightning_Side_Long.349224116_std.jpg
http://www.blendernation.com/2006/05/15/realistic-blender-explosion-tutorial/Information linkshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literal_and_figurative_language
http://www.westga.edu/~scarter/Figurative_Language1.htm