V4 - Figurative Language (metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, understatement)

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Baby, you're a firework!

Figurative language

What you need today:

...Ipad (LessonUp)

...Notebook/paper to take notes

After this lesson...

... you can recognise examples of metaphors, similes, hyperboles, understatements and personifications!

... you can use the decision tree to identify the right type of figurative language

... you know why figurative language is used

* Taking notes / your literature file

Figurative language

- 'figure' it out

- makes concepts/symbolism easier to visualise for the reader

- makes your (song)writing more interesting

- can help make a point 

Compare: 

1) The tree is tall

2) The tree was like a giant rising up from the air

Metaphor vs. Simile

A comparison between two things without 'like' or 'as'

A comparison between two things with the words 'like' or 'as'

Hyperbole vs. Understatement

Describing something in a way that makes it seem less important, bad, serious etc. than it really is

Exaggeration for emphasis or effect

I will love you forever

My parents are from the Stone Age

Personification

Human traits are given to objects or ideas

Personification

Simile

Metaphor

Hyperbole

Understatement

She is a walking dictionary

The car is feeling cranky today

The middle of the street isn’t the best place for your child to play.

She hung her head like a dying flower

I would die without you!

Work in pairs

Write down what each statement is. 

1. James ran like a cheetah.

2. Good luck getting that out because blueberry stains are stubborn.

3. So I sit spinning still, round this decaying form, the fine threads of rare and subtle thought.

4. Well, that went over like a lead balloon.

5. I am so busy. I have a million things to do.

6. I so loved reading I was willing to walk 15 miles to the library in the snow, uphill. 7. He did not realize his last chance was walking out the door.

8. My old laptop throws a fit every time I try to use it.9. Easy-going

9. My love for you is a s deep as the ocean.

10. I was lost in a sea of nameless faces.

Work on

Read & do the questions for the short story the Test.

Start reading "The story of an hour"

Work on your practical assignment for your book.