A conversation between

Amhmad and Ali

• Ahymad: Well, you're pretty
sight !Got slightly wet, didn’t
you?
• Ali: Wet? I’m drowned ! It’s
raining cats and dogs outside,
and my raincoat ‘s just like a
sieve !
Literally = Nonsense

• But
• You are speaking figuratively
• Actually you are saying more than
you mean or less or something else.
• Pretty sight= wretched sight
• Slightly wet= very wet
• It rains cats and dogs= it is raining
too much
• A figure of Speech is: any way
of saying something other than
the ordinary way.
• Figurative language is: language
using figures of speech- is
language that cannot be taken
literally.
Metaphor and Simile

• are both used as a means of

comparing things that are
essentially unlike.
In Simile the comparison is
expressed by the use of some
word or phrase such as: like, as,
than, similar to, resembles, or
seems.
Items of the simile or
.Metaphor
• The figurative term is
substituted for or identified with
the literal term.
• My love is like a red rose.
THE HOUND
Life the hound
Equivocal
Comes at a bound
Either to rend me
Or to befriend me.
I cannot tell
The hound’s intent
Till he has sprung
At my bare hand
With teeth or tongue
Meanwhile I stand
And wait the event
Rober Francis
BEREFT
Where Had I heard this wind before
Change like this to a deeper roar?
What would it take my standing there gor,
Holding open a restrive door,
Looking downhill to a frothy shore?
………………………
Outin the porch’s sagging floor
Leaves got up in a coil and hissed,
Blindly struck at my knee and missed.
…………………………
Robert Frost
It sifts from leaden
sieves
It sifts from leaden sieves,
It powders all the wood.
It fills with alabaster wool
The wrinkles of the road.

It makes an even face

Of mountain and of plain-
Unbroken foreheaded from the east
Untoo the east again
It reaches to the fence,
It wraps it rail by rail
Till it is lostin fleeces
It deals celestial veil
…………………
Then still its artisans like ghosts,
Denying they have been
The Metaphor Four Forms

• The literal term………The figurative term

1- named ……… …… Named
2- named……… ……… Implied
3- Implied…… ……… Named
4- implied……… ………Implied