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Fig. Language

The document provides an overview of figurative language, explaining its purpose and common types such as similes, metaphors, and personification. It includes examples of sentences that can be enhanced using figurative expressions and offers practice exercises for identifying different figures of speech. The content is aimed at sixth-grade students for the 2024-2025 academic year.

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Fig. Language

The document provides an overview of figurative language, explaining its purpose and common types such as similes, metaphors, and personification. It includes examples of sentences that can be enhanced using figurative expressions and offers practice exercises for identifying different figures of speech. The content is aimed at sixth-grade students for the 2024-2025 academic year.

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Figurative Language

Grade Six
2024-2025
Let’s read the sentences below. How can you
make each sentence better and interesting?

I am very happy. I am over the moon.

I slept very well last night. I slept like a baby last night.
I am very tired.
I am worn out.
I don’t have any money.
I am broke.
He runs very fast.
He runs like a cheetah.
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Figurative language is language that is used to convey
something that is different from the literal dictionary
definition of the word.
Figurative language is most commonly used in poetry,
and is often used in both fiction and nonfiction writing.
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Figures of speech
A FIGURE OF SPEECH IS A PHRASE OR AN EXPRESSION
THAT EXPRESSES AN IDEA BY USING WORDS IN A
NONLITERAL AND IMAGINATIVE WAY. UNLIKE AN
IDIOM, IT IS POSSIBLE TO UNDERSTAND A FIGURE OF
SPEECH EVEN IF YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD IT BEFORE.

Common Figures of Speech : Alliteration, Hyperbole,


Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Personification, Simile.
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Let’s practice:
DIRECTION :READ EACH FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE AND SAY ITS TYPE.

• Put on your thinking cap. ___________ idiom


• If I can’t get a cellphone, I will die. _________ hyperbole
• The student was as quiet as a mouse. ________ simile
• Her heart is a cold iron. ________ metaphor
• The slices of bread jumped out of the toaster. personification
• Buzz! Go the bees. __________ onomatopoeia
• Dan desires dessert for dinner. ________ alliteration

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