Figurative Language Activity-Speak
Figurative Language Activity-Speak
Figurative Language Activity-Speak
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Authors use figurative language to create a picture in the readers’ minds. Most of the time, the
author is comparing what is really happening with something people are familiar with, allowing
the reader to make a connection with what is happening in the novel. Figurative language also
allows the author to express in more a powerful way what is occurring in the novel. Some
literary elements that are used to create figurative language are:
Metaphor: a comparison between two unlike things without using the words like or as.
Activity One: Read the examples of figurative language from Speak listed below. Label each
example with an S for simile, an M for metaphor, or a P for personification.
2. ____ I dive into the stream of fourth-period lunch students and swim down the hall to the
cafeteria.
3. ____ I have been dropped like a hot Pop Tart on a cold kitchen floor.
4. ____ We are all dressed in down jackets and vests, so we collide and roll like bumper cars at
the state fair.
5. ____There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs.
6. ____ Her skin is a flat gray color, like underwear washed so many times it’s about to fall
apart.
7. ____ All the anger whistles out of me like I’m a popped balloon.
8. ____ Lights wink on, the fountains jump, music plays behind the giant ferns, and the mall is
open.
9. ____ The card is still there, a white patch of hope with my name on it.
11. ____ Her voice sounds like a cold engine that won’t turn over.