Understanding Figurative Language: Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, Lecture notes of Linguistics

Download Understanding Figurative Language: Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole and more Lecture notes Linguistics in PDF only on Docsity! Figuring Out Figurative Language Created by Mrs. D’Amato Objective: Students will be able to understand and identify seven different kinds of Figurative Language. Students will use them correctly in their writing. Alliteration Alliteration is a sentence or phrase with words that start with the same letter or sound. (Warning: Tongue Twisters!) Monkeys make major messes. Peter the penguin likes pizza and pickles. Sally sells seashells by the sea shore. Onomatopoeia A word that sounds like the noise it makes! Your comic strip must… •Have a title •Include at least one onomatopoeia word in each box (could be more!) •display a main character, setting, problem, and resolution •Be creative! •Be fully colored and detailed Activity: Becoming Comic Strip Authors Hyperbole To describe something in an extremely exaggerated way We waited in line all day! The extra-point kick missed by a mile! The phone is ringing off the hook. These shoes are killing me! This will take forever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_ODYCs9CS4 WHAT DO€S “LITERAL” MeAn? literal hyperbole 50 million years later These shoes take spunpy buon uosuryity WYOr @ © John Atkinson, Wrong Hands « gocomics.com/wrang-hands « wronghandsd..com Idiom A common expression that can’t be taken literally, but the meaning is understood. It’s raining cats and dogs. You can’t teach old dog new tricks. I’m all ears. My blood is boiling. *Brain Pop! Personification Describing non-human things using human qualities The leaves danced in the wind. The house was drowning after the rain. The angry sea swallowed the tiny ship. Create your own personification example! •Brainstorm and create a personification example! (Ex. My pencil is tired of writing) On a sentence strip, write a personification example. Draw the literal picture to match your personification! •Be creative! •Must be large and take up the whole page! Now let’s get writing!