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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!
- Under the weather
- Rome wasn’t built in a day
- Let the cat out of the bag
- It’s all Greek to me
- Throw in the towel
- Cost an arm and a leg
- A piece of cake
- 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!