FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

What is Figurative Language

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- refers to the use of words in a way
that deviates from the conventional o
rder and meaning.
• IDIOMS
• METAPHOR
•ONOMATOPOEIA
• IDIOMS
- are words or phrases that aren't meant to be taken
literally.
For example, if you say someone has “cold
feet,” it doesn't mean their toes are actually cold.
Rather, it means they're nervous about something.
• IDIOMS
EXAMPLES:

✓ "A piece of cake"

✓ "Stabbed in the back"
✓ "Two birds in one stone"
• METAPHOR

A figure of speech that is used to make a comparison

between two things that aren't alike but do have
something in common.
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For example, "her tears were a river flowing down her

cheeks. A river and tears aren't very alike. One is a body
of water in nature, while the other can be produced by
our eyes. They do have one thing in common, though:
both are a type of water that flows. A metaphor uses this
similarity to help the writer make a point.
• METAPHOR
EXAMPLE:

Life is a curly slides full of twist and

turns.
 • ONOMATOPOEIA
- Refers to words whose pronunciations imitate the
sounds they describe.
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EXAMPLES:
✓ Ticktock, ticktock… the sound of the clock
was all that could be heard in the hospital waiting
room.
✓ A dog's bark sounds like “woof,” so “woof”
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