Figurative language and figures of speech have two functions: first, to add vividness and immediacy; second, to interpret the object described or the attitude towards it. For example, instead of saying that a girl’s hair is black and glossy, you can stir the imagination of the reader if you say that the girl’s hair is black as a raven(simile).
Examples:
1. We wouldn’t move a muscle; the room was an oven and we felt we could be roasted bread my moment. (Metaphor)
2. The river showed an insane rage and rushed down the land. (Personification)
3. The Olympian god showered her with blessings never given to any mortal. (Allusion)
4. I detest going home early because, for sure, a mountain of dishes awaits me. (Hyperbole)
5. Have you read Milton? …show more content…
9 by T. E. Lawrence
Discussion Questions
1.1. What sense impressions are used in the paragraph?
2. Identify the elements of description used. Copy one sentence with a figurative of speech and identify its type.
Read the following paragraph and take note of the emotion/feeling expressed by the characters.
Pausing in his speech, Wing Biddlebaum looked long and earnestly at George Willard. His eyes glowed. Again, he raised the hands to caress the boy and then a look of horror swept over his face.
With a convulsive movement of his body, Wing Biddlebaum sprang to his feet and thrust his hands deep into his trousers pockets. Tears came to his eyes. “I must be getting along home. I can talk no more with you.” He said nervously.
Without looking back, then the old man had hurried down the hillside and across a meadow, leaving George Willard perplexed and frightened upon the grassy slope. With a shiver of dread, the boy arose and went along the road toward town. “I’ll not ask him about his hands,” he thought, touched by the memory of terror he had seen in the man’s eyes. “There is something wrong, but I don’t want to know what it is. His hands have something to do with his fear of me and of
Examples:
1. We wouldn’t move a muscle; the room was an oven and we felt we could be roasted bread my moment. (Metaphor)
2. The river showed an insane rage and rushed down the land. (Personification)
3. The Olympian god showered her with blessings never given to any mortal. (Allusion)
4. I detest going home early because, for sure, a mountain of dishes awaits me. (Hyperbole)
5. Have you read Milton? …show more content…
9 by T. E. Lawrence
Discussion Questions
1.1. What sense impressions are used in the paragraph?
2. Identify the elements of description used. Copy one sentence with a figurative of speech and identify its type.
Read the following paragraph and take note of the emotion/feeling expressed by the characters.
Pausing in his speech, Wing Biddlebaum looked long and earnestly at George Willard. His eyes glowed. Again, he raised the hands to caress the boy and then a look of horror swept over his face.
With a convulsive movement of his body, Wing Biddlebaum sprang to his feet and thrust his hands deep into his trousers pockets. Tears came to his eyes. “I must be getting along home. I can talk no more with you.” He said nervously.
Without looking back, then the old man had hurried down the hillside and across a meadow, leaving George Willard perplexed and frightened upon the grassy slope. With a shiver of dread, the boy arose and went along the road toward town. “I’ll not ask him about his hands,” he thought, touched by the memory of terror he had seen in the man’s eyes. “There is something wrong, but I don’t want to know what it is. His hands have something to do with his fear of me and of