M4 - Figurative Language

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 4

00:38

"I'm like a bird"

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

00:58

"You, with your words like knives..."

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

01:07

You, with your voice like nails on a chalkboard calling me out when I'm wounded

1. Onomatopoeia
2. Rhyme
3. Metaphor
4. Simile

01:15

"Do you ever feel like a plastic bag"

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

01:30

"Baby, you're a firework!"

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

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

Metaphor vs. Simile

A comparison between two things that are seemingly unrelated:

'you are my sunshine'

A comparison between two things with 'like' or 'as':

'you're as cold as ice'

'her smile came out like a rainbow' 

Alliteration vs. Onomatopoia 

Repeating the same                                Words which sound like 

consonant sound at                                 what they mean:

the begining of words:                            'bang, pop, boom'

'soft, slithery snake' 

Hyperbole vs. Understatement

Describing something in a way that makes it seem less important, bad, serious etc. than it really is:                                                                                      'It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine'           

Exaggeration for emphasis or effect:

                                                                                                                                            ' I would walk 500 miles, and I would walk 500 more, just to be the man who walked 1,000 miles to fall down at your door.

Personification

When inanimate objects are given human characteristics

Personification

Simile

Metaphor

Hyperbole

Understatement

A comparison between two things that are seemingly unrelated

When inanimate objects are given human characteristics

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

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

Exaggeration for emphasis or effect

00:13

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:

00:23

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

is a

1. Personification
2. Simile
3. Metaphor

02:18

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

Which phrase contains a personification?