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Figurative Language in Literature

Figurative Language in Literature. Language that goes beyond the literal meaning to create a special image in our minds or a dramatic effect. Simile. A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared, usually in a phrase introduced by like or as . Example:

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Figurative Language in Literature

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  1. Figurative Language in Literature Language that goes beyond the literal meaning to create a special image in our minds or a dramatic effect

  2. Simile • A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared, usually in a phrase introduced by like or as. • Example: "Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."(Carl Sandburg)

  3. Metaphor • A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common. Doesn’t use like or as to make the comparison. • Example: This class is a three-ring circus

  4. Personification • Figurative language that gives animals and inanimate objects human characteristics. • Example: • The lake was left shivering by the touch of morning wind.

  5. Imagery • Descriptive language that is used to appeal to the five senses in order to create vivid mental images for the reader. • Example: • He could hear the footsteps of doom nearing.

  6. Idiom • An expression that, taken literally, means something other than it does figuratively. • Example: • Don’t put all your eggs in one basket

  7. Hyperbole • An exaggeration or overstatement used for effect. Such statements are not literally true. • Example: • I am so hungry that I could eat a horse.

  8. Alliteration • Repeated consonant or vowel sounds at the beginning of words. Alliteration is used to create mood or emphasis • Example: lady lounges lazily the snake slithered slowly across the slick cement.

  9. Assonance • Repeating identical or similar vowel sounds in nearby words • Example: "Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage, against the dying of the light."(Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good night")

  10. Cliche • A phrase or expression which has lost its effectiveness through overuse Example: It was a white as snow. What goes around comes around.

  11. Connotation • is the emotional and imaginative association surrounding a word. Example: You may live in a house but I live in a home.

  12. Consonance • the repetition of the same consonant two or more times in succession Example: pitter patter all mammals named Sam are clammy.

  13. Onomatopoeia • is a word that imitates the sound it represents. Example: Hiss Sizzle Splash

  14. Euphemism • The substitution of an inoffensive term (such as "passed away") for one considered offensively explicit ("died").

  15. Pun

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