Its Majesty Figurative Language

Its Royal Highness Simile

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 The main aims:
1. Literal and figurative languages
2. Types of figurative language
3. Classification of similes
4. Examples in fiction, poetry, lyrics, films
5. Similes of the Russian and the English
languages
6. Etymology of similes
 Hypothesis
English and Russian people are
different nations speaking different
languages and perceiving the world
in a different way will never
understand each other.
 Language
1. A system of communication used
by people in a country.
2. The ability to use words to
communicate.
3. The kind of words and a style of
writing used by people.
 Language

Literal Figurative

simile hyperbole
metaphor oxymoron
onomatopoeia personification
 Simile – a figure of
speech that compares
two things using
structures ‘as…as’ or
‘like’.
 Classification I
Explicit – явная Implicit – скрытая
‘as…as’ ‘like’
As busy as a bee Swim like a fish
 Classification II
Type I Type II
Real quality of a real Quality of non-existent
object object
‘lither as a panther’ – ‘pale as a ghost’ –
гибкий как бледный как
 Classification II
Type III
Comparison based on absolutely incomparable
objects
‘I feel like a mile-high pastrami on rye on the fly
from the deli in the sky.’ – Я парень крутой, как
бутерброд с бастурмой, на небо взлечу – куда
хочу, полечу!
(Cartoon ‘Madagascar’)
 Classification III
Visual – визуальные
‘as brave as a lion’
Tactile – тактильные
‘as soft as silk’
Auditory – слуховые
‘as clear as a whistle’
Taste and smell – вкусовые и обонятельные
‘as sour as a lemon’
 60 explicit similes
70

60

50
visual
40 tactile
auditory
30
taste & smell
20 not classified

10

0
 We are … Not different!
Mute as …
Нем как …

Obstinate as …
Упрям как …

Busy as …
Трудолюбив как …
 We are different but …
Red as Красный
как …

Scarce as Мало
hen’s teeth как
 We are different but …
Inexperienced
as green as gooseberry

Неопытный
Как птенец
 We are different !!!
Fit as a fiddle Здоров как бык

Cool as a cucumber Спокойный как удав

 Lewis Carroll's similes
“Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”
 Etymology
Mad as a hatter
1. Mercury in hat making

2. Mad as an (h)adder

3. Madness of “hatters”
miners of New Zealand
 Etymology
Mad as a March hare Dead as the dodo
(breeding season) (extinct bird)
Religion (Bible, the Book of Genesis,
Psalms)
1. As old as Methuselah
Стар как Мафусаил

2. Poor as Lazarus
Беден как Лазарь

3. Cherish as the apple of one’s eye

Беречь как зеницу ока
 History
Rich as Croesus Богат как Крез
The last king of Lydia
6th century BC
 Poetry – Shakespeare
sonnet 147
My love is as a fever,
longing still
For that which longer
nurseth the disease…

Who art as black as hell,

as dark as night…
 Poetry – R.Burns
O my luve’s like a red, red rose,
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my love is like the melodie
That’s sweetly played in June.
 Songs/ Lyrics
Norah Jones “Turn me on”
Flower
Light bulb
Like a
Desert
School kid

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 Songs/ Lyrics
Selena Gomez “Love you like a love song”

Like a dream come alive

Like a symphony

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 Being different and speaking
different languages can’t stop us
from being able to understand and
communicate with each other

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