University:
Missouri State University
Course:
ENG 191 | Grammar Skills
Academic year:

2020
Views:

452

Pages:

6
Author:

Annalise Mayer

Figurative Language • Tool that an author uses to help the reader visualize what is happening in a story or poem. • A descriptive statement that is not literal! (does not really mean what it says) • Simile • Metaphor •Idiom •Hyperbole Simile • Comparison of two dissimilar things using “like” or “as” • “The pads were worn down slick as the rind of an apple.” (p. 5) •“I had lost weight and was as thin as a bean pole.” (p. 17) Metaphor • States that one thing is something else • Comparison that does not use “like” or “as” • Life is a mountain, difficult to climb and with few straight paths to the top. • You are my sunshine. • She’s such a witch. Extended Metaphor • Metaphors can be extended so that different aspects of the things compared are treated separately • Makes the metaphor “bigger” • Billy’s dog-wanting as a “disease” • Symptoms • Treatments • Results Idiom • A phrase whose words have a meaning different from their usual meaning. Examples: “It’s raining cats and dogs!” “I’m in over my head!” “She’s in the dog house!” “Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill!” Hyperbole • Exaggeration used to make a point. Examples: “My dog is so ugly he only has cats for friends” “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!” “I’ve told you a million times to be quiet!”