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

An objective for students to learn and identify seven different types of figurative language: alliteration, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, idiom, and personification. Students will create comic strips and engage in activities to practice using these figures of speech effectively in their writing.

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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.

7 different Kinds of Figurative Language

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

Simile

Metaphor

Hyperbole

Idiom

Personification

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.

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

Simile

When you compare two things using the words like or as

My dog is as smelly as a sock! Her tears ran like rain. Busy as a bee Cute as a button The ball streaked across the field like a meteor!

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_ODYCs9CS

What does “literal” mean?

Matching Idioms!

  1. Under the weather
  2. Rome wasn’t built in a day
  3. Let the cat out of the bag
  4. It’s all Greek to me
  5. Throw in the towel
  6. Cost an arm and a leg
  7. A piece of cake
  8. Raining cats and dogs

A. Told a secret B. Raining heavily C. Feeling sick D. Difficult to understand E. Very expensive F. Some things take a lot of time G. To give up H. Very easy

Idiom Practice

Pick and draw the Literal and figurative meaning of a idiom!

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!