ELA37

Figurative Language

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DEFINITION:
Figurative language is language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation. When a writer uses literal language, he or she is simply stating the facts as they are.

HOW TO:
One of the best ways to really understand the concept of figurative language is to see it in action such as with these examples: Alright, the sky misses the sun at night. The poorest man is the richest, and the rich are poor. Hear the mellow wedding bells. - Edgar Allen Poe Out of reach, I pull out with a screech. I move fast like a cheetah on the Serengeti. Her head was spinning from all the new information. The toast jumped out of the toaster. I’m so hungry I could eat a horse. The Sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle. The Redcoats are coming! I’ve told you a million times to clean your room!

Everyday Use:
Figurative language can be found in literature and poetry where the writing appeals to the senses. It can do this by giving a word with a specific meaning, by comparing two things in such a way that you find the comparison interesting or by using words that have unusual constructions or sounds.

Lyrics

Figurative language

We talking Figurative language

Figurative language

We talking Figurative language

Figurative language

We talking Figurative language

Let's get it start

We’re about to have a language party

With Figurative language

Let me start you all with the basics

Whatever you discussing about

By comparing with another language

That’s this

Let me blow your mind

For a little while I break down this list

You have simile

That’s using like or as

Hyperbole

Exaggerates and that’s dramatic

Clichés

Something that’s been used over again

Alliteration

Repetition of a single letter in an alphabet

Personification

A figure of speech in which

Human things are giving to an animal or objects

Onomatopoeia

The Naming of a thing or action by a vocal Imation

So this right here

(This right here)

will always be the key

so when you about to take that English test

your aunt got no worries

I say this right here

(This right here here)

will always be the key

so aunt no worries let's cut up

now tell me what it’s going to be

Figurative language

We talking Figurative language

Figurative language

We talking Figurative language

Figurative language

We talking Figurative language

Standards

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.4 — Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.4 — Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful. (Include Shakespeare as well as other authors.)
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5 — Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.5 — Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.4 — analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.5 — Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.4 — Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.6.5 — Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.5 — Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.7.5 — Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.4 — Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.4 — Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.5.A — Interpret figurative language, including similes and metaphors, in context.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4 — Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.7.4 — Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.4 — Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term or terms over the course of a text (e.g., how Madison defines faction in Federalist No. 10).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.4 — analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.4 — Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.5 — Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.