Figurative Language

Metaphors are considered to be one of the most important forms of figurative languages used in everyday speech, prose, fiction, and poetry. According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, a metaphor is “a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison” (Van Engen, 2008). Metaphors are used to enhance imagination of the reader when reading stories and poems. Metaphors make imaginative comparisons between two completely different objects; one object said to be another. For instance, in the poem Casey at the Bat, the author uses a metaphor to compare players to objects by stating the players are those actual

Personification is when an object receives human traits such as talking or screaming. Another example of a figurative language is located on page 226. “My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death.” That quote is an example of a simile and a metaphor. A simile is a comparison using like or as, while on the other hand, a metaphor is a comparison without using like or as.

A metaphor is comparing two objects without the use of like or as. One example of a metaphor in the letter is found in 39th paragraph and reads “Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away.”(King). This is a metaphor because it compares dark clouds to racial prejudice without like or as. Another metaphor is in the 39th paragraph and reads “the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow and the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.”(King). This is a metaphor because it compares radiant starts to love and brotherhood without like or

Analogies/Metaphors: When you can relate your scenario to something that the prospect already accepts as true.

Starting with figurative language, you find a hyperbole. The example is when one person at the stand shouts, "'Kill him! Kill the umpire!'" It's hyperbole because he doesn't want him to literally be killed. What makes it humorous is that some readers may find it funny for someone to yell, "Kill him," at a baseball game. The example for rhyming is when the stragglers thought about betting on Casey. The author wrote, "They thought, 'If only Casey could

22. A metaphor is a literary term used to depict words within a sentence that are being compared, but are two completely different concepts.

Analogy: A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. An analogy can explain something unfamiliar by associating it with or pointing out its similarity to something more

A pun is a humorous play on words by using words that consist of two or more meanings similar sounding phrases that have contrasting definitions.

“Chapter Five: Figurative Language 1” Notes Concepts Figurative language is not literal. Two examples of figurative language are simile and metaphor. When a simile is used, “the comparison is expressed by the use of some word or phrase, such as like, as, than, similar to, resembles, or seems; in metaphor, the comparison is not expressed but is created when a figurative term is substituted for or identified with the literal term” (748). Example: In “Harlem” by Langston Hughes, the speaker also asks, “Does it stink like rotten meat?”

In The Language of Science by Carol Reeves, she discusses metaphors in science in unit two and how they are an important part of everyday life. We constantly use metaphors in our daily lives and we have become so accustomed to them that we fail to realize how heavily we rely on them. We use metaphors consciously and unconsciously every day to describe things. They help us express feelings we cannot describe so we relate them to another experience. However, metaphors are imperfect. They fail to completely describe the events and never tell the whole truth. Sometimes metaphors make dreary situations seem brighter, or they make us feel comfortable with what is going on in the world.

Figurative Language is how writers produce an image for the reader through their writing. Two common example of figurative language is similes and metaphors. An example of connotation used in this song

Albert Einstein once said, “You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.” Writers frequently use figurative language to demonstrate and emphasize what they wish the audience to acknowledge. Irony is a situation in which the opposite happened rather than what is expected. Imagery is a figurative language that uses the five senses to represent an idea. Structure is how the writer organized his lines. Many writers use irony, imagery, and structure in their writings to protest war.

"The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor." [It is] "a sign of real genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissimilars." Aristotle in Poetics.

An example : “you are like a red rose”, a red rose is a metaphor for beauty.

metaphor. Which is basically comparing two things without using like or as. The poem starts