What is Language Arts?
Language Arts is a term used to include all areas of communicating in English. In our school, that includes spelling, grammar, and writing.
Types of Sentences
What is figurative language?
Figurative language is a word or phrase that does not have a literal meaning. It is used by a writer for dramatic effect. Authors use similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole to make their writing more interesting.
Simile
A simile uses the words “like” or “as” to compare one object or
idea with another to suggest they are alike.
Example: happy as a clam
Metaphors
The metaphor states a fact or draws a verbal picture by the use of comparison.
A metaphor makes a direct comparison - it says you are something.
Example: Life is a highway.
Personification
A figure of speech in which human characteristics are
given to an animal or an object.
Example: My teddy bear hugged me.
Alliteration
The repetition of the same initial letter, sound, or group of sounds in a series
of words. Alliteration includes tongue twisters.
Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Onomatopoeia
The use of a word to describe or imitate a natural sound
or the sound made by an object or an action.
Example: drip, click, boom
Hyperbole
An exaggeration that is so dramatic that no one would believe the
statement is true. Tall tales are hyperboles.
Example: One winter it was so cold that even the snow turned blue. -from Paul Bunyan
Idioms
An expression whose meaning is not predictable from
the usual meanings of the actual words.
Example: I am in a pickle.
2 comments:
I like all your examples except for the hyperbole shouldn't you put it turned blue like Paul Bunyans bull.
Hi Ave! That example is from the book. How would you write it differently? I hope you post your version here in the comments. It will be fun to see if others add to your version!
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