FigurativeLanguage SHAMPOO

7/29/2019 FigurativeLanguage SHAMPOO

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a comparison of twothings using likeor as

His feet

are asbig as

boats

His feet

are likeboats.


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WARNING:

(1) A rookie mistake that beginning writers often make:they'll draw a relationship between two unlike things and

move on, daring us to take them at their word(s):

"love is like a faucet

The simile needs a qualifying phrase or a parallel idea.

"love is like a faucet / it turns off and on

Billie Holliday

(2) Oftentimes, a simile is bad because it compares

something we might be able to visualize with something

we might not be able to visualize.


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Dreams Deferred

by Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up

Like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore--

And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?

Or crust and sugar over--

like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags

like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?


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A list of some of the

worst high schoolsimiles

ever.


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extreme exaggerationfor emphasis.

She ran faster than

the speed of light.He is a hairy beast.


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To His Coy Mistress

By Andrew Marvell

Had we but world enough, and time,

This coyness, Lady, were no crime.

We would sit down and think which way

To walk and pass our long love's day.

My vegetable love should grow

Vaster than empires, and more slow;

An hundred years should go to praise

Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze;


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repetition of the firstletter or sound; Writers

may use alliteration to givewriting a musical quality.

Callie quickly corrected her

overturned kayak on Lake Conroe.


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compare two things without usinglikeor as; instead, say one thing

is another

My fingers

were icicles.


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give human qualities to an animal,object, or idea

The lightning

struck outwith anger.


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Fog

by Carl Sandburg

The FOG comes

on little cat feet.

It sits looking

over harbor and city

on silent haunches

and then moves on.


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sound effect words~~like buzz,pop, meow, drip

The pizza

sizzled asit came out

of the oven


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The Great Figure

William Carlos Williams

Among the rainand lights

I saw the figure 5

in gold

on a redfiretruck

moving

tense

unheededto gong clangs

siren howls

and wheels rumbling

through the dark city.


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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?

Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle

Can patter out their hasty orisons.

No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;

Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,

The shrill, dementedchoirs of wailing shells;

And bugles7calling for them from sad shires

From Anthem for Doomed YouthWilfred Owen


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two words or phrases thatcontradict

Who orderedthe jumboshrimp?


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A. sound effect wordsB. compare two things

without like oras; onething is another.

C. give a human qualities to

an animal, object, or

idea.

D. Repetition of sounds

E. comparison of two things

using like oras.F. two words that contradict

G. extreme exaggeration for

emphasis.

WORD BANK:Simile

Hyperbole

Alliteration

Metaphor

Personification

Onomatopoeia

Oxymoron

Figurative Language Matching


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Sonnet 16 by ShakespeareShall I compare thee to a summers day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summers lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, 5

And often is his gold complexion dimmd;And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or natures changing course untrimmd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; 10Nor shall Death brag thou wanderst in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this and this gives life to thee.


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Sonnet 16 by Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summers day? A

Thou art more lovely and more temperate: BRough winds do shake the darling buds of May, A

And summers lease hath all too short a date: B

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, C 5

And often is his gold complexion dimmd; DAnd every fair from fair sometime declines, C

By chance or natures changing course untrimmd; D

But thy eternal summer shall not fade E

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; F 10

Nor shall Death brag thou wanderst in his shade, E

When in eternal lines to time thou growest: F

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, G

So long lives this and this gives life to thee. G


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SOUND DEVICE: ASSONANCE

- repetition ofVOWEL SOUNDS at the

BEGINNING, MIDDLE orEND ofat least

two words in a line of poetry.


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SOUND DEVICE: CONSONANCE

- repetition ofCONSONANT SOUNDS at

the BEGINNING, MIDDLE orEND ofat

least two words in a line of poetry.


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Assonance vs. Consonance

Examples ofAssonance

Repeating the eh sound in the words:

crescent, flesh, extending, medicine

and death

Examples ofConsonance

Repeating the sh sound in the words:

shush, wish, sharp, cushion and

quash


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Putting it Together!

Go to:

II, ii, 169-201And find an example of each

part of SHAMPOO. Then,

write down WHY this exampleis being used.

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