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

Figurative Language Worksheet --> Handouts

10 minutes

Identify types of figurative language in 10 sentences

Work in pairs 

Check answers (after 10 minutes)

Discuss questions

Personification

Simile

Metaphor

Hyperbole

Understatement

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

Giving human traits to objects or ideas

Expression with less strength (opposite of hyperbole)

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

Exaggeration for emphasis or effect

00:14

You're as cold as ice

is a

1. Personification
2. Hyperbole
3. Metaphor
4. Simile

00:19

Havana, ooh-na-na (ayy) Half of my heart is in Havana, ooh na-na (ayy, ayy)
He took me back to East Atlanta, na-na-na, ah
Oh, but my heart is in Havana (ayy)
There's somethin' 'bout his manners (uh-huh)
Havana, ooh-na-na (uh)

Identify the hyperbole:

00:28

"I'm a hot air balloon that could go to space"

is a

1. Personification
2. Simile
3. Metaphor

02:19

Which phrase of the lyrics contains a personification?

I'm never gonna dance again, guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it's easy to pretend, I know you're not a fool
I should have known better than to cheat a friend
And waste a chance that I'd been given
So I'm never gonna dance again the way I danced with you

Provide an example of an understatement