For example, "she talks a mile a minute" and "I'm so embarrassed I could die" are both hyperboles.
Onomatopoeia: A word that is formed based on vocal imitation and used to describe the sound something makes."She spilled the beans" and "take it with a grain of salt" are examples of idioms. Idiom: A saying or expression with a figurative meaning different from the literal meaning.Examples would be "the wind howled" and "her joints complained." Personification: The assignment of human characteristics to something nonhuman.For example, "the world is your oyster" and "your bedroom is a pigsty" are both metaphors. Metaphor: A figure of speech where a word or phrase is used to describe something in a way that is not physically possible.Examples of a simile would be "she was as sweet as pie" and "life is like a box of chocolates." Simile: Used to describe one thing by comparing it to another in order to strengthen a description.Some figurative language offers comparisons, some uses expressions, and other figurative language exaggerates or understates a writer's idea.īelow is a list of many of the most commonly used forms of figurative language and literary devices in poetry. You have some common ones, like metaphor, and some rarer ones, like metonymy, but instead of examining each individual device, let's look at big categories. When it comes to literary devices that fall into the category of figurative language, there are too many to list in this lesson. I'm going to show you some ways to make it easier. Since poetry's life blood is figurative language (notice my own use of figurative language), poetry can be challenging for some readers. I would mean that he died, because to 'kick the bucket' is a type of figurative language that uses those words to mean something beyond the literal. If I were to say, 'At the end of the play Caesar kicks the bucket,' I wouldn't mean that Caesar had actually kicked a pail. Seuss, sums up literal language when he states, 'I meant what I said and I said what I meant.' Literal language is easy to understand what you see is what you get.įigurative language, on the other hand, is the use of words to intentionally move away from their standard meaning. Literal language is the use of words in the conventional manner, when words and phrases are used to convey their typical meaning. One way to think about language is to see that it comes in two main categories: figurative and literal.
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