V4 - Figurative Language (metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, understatement)

Baby, you're a firework!
Figurative language



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This lesson contains 20 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 5 videos.

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Baby, you're a firework!
Figurative language



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After this lesson...
... you can recognise examples of metaphors, similes, hyperboles, understatements and personifications!
... you can use the decision tree to identify the right type of figurative language
... you know why figurative language is used

* Taking notes / your literature file

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Figurative language
- 'figure' it out
- makes concepts/symbolism easier to visualise for the reader
- makes your (song)writing more interesting
- can help make a point 

Compare: 
1) The tree is tall
2) The tree was like a giant rising up from the air

Slide 3 - Slide

Metaphor vs. Simile
A comparison between two things without 'like' or 'as'
A comparison between two things with the words 'like' or 'as'

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Hyperbole vs. Understatement
Describing something in a way that makes it seem less important, bad, serious etc. than it really is
Exaggeration for emphasis or effect

I will love you forever

My parents are from the Stone Age

Slide 5 - Slide

Personification
Human traits are given to objects or ideas


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Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Understatement
She is a walking dictionary
The car is feeling cranky today
The middle of the street isn’t the best place for your child to play.
She hung her head like a dying flower
I would die without you!

Slide 7 - Drag question

Work in pairs

Slide 8 - Slide

Figurative Language Worksheet --> Handouts

10 minutes

Identify types of figurative language in 10 sentences

Work in pairs 

Check answers (after 10 minutes)

Discuss questions

Slide 9 - Slide

Slide 10 - Video

Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Understatement
A comparison between two things without 'like' or 'as'
Giving human traits to objects or ideas
Expression with less strength (opposite of hyperbole)
A comparison between two things with the words 'like' or 'as'
Exaggeration for emphasis or effect

Slide 11 - Drag question

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Slide 12 - Video

00:14
You're as cold as ice

is a
A
Personification
B
Hyperbole
C
Metaphor
D
Simile

Slide 13 - Quiz

1

Slide 14 - Video

00:19
Havana, ooh-na-na (ayy) Half of my heart is in Havana, ooh na-na (ayy, ayy)
He took me back to East Atlanta, na-na-na, ah
Oh, but my heart is in Havana (ayy)
There's somethin' 'bout his manners (uh-huh)
Havana, ooh-na-na (uh)

Identify the hyperbole:

Slide 15 - Open question

1

Slide 16 - Video

00:28
"I'm a hot air balloon that could go to space"

is a
A
Personification
B
Simile
C
Metaphor

Slide 17 - Quiz

1

Slide 18 - Video

02:19
Which phrase of the lyrics contains a personification?

I'm never gonna dance again, guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it's easy to pretend, I know you're not a fool
I should have known better than to cheat a friend
And waste a chance that I'd been given
So I'm never gonna dance again the way I danced with you

Slide 19 - Open question

Provide an example of an understatement

Slide 20 - Open question