Introduction
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE AND PUNCTUAUTION
Figurative language is the use of words in an unusual or imaginative manner. Often figurative language involves the use of a metaphor, a simile, personification, hyperbole, idiom, a euphemism, and pun. However, as the term figurative language also covers unusual or imaginative word constructions (and not just word meanings), it also includes alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia.
You use punctuation marks to structure and organise your writing. The most common of these are the period (or full stop in British English), the comma, the exclamation mark, the question mark, the colon and semi-colon, the quote, the apostrophe, the hyphen and dash, and parentheses and brackets. Capital letters are also used to help us organise meaning and to structure the sense of our writing.
Task
- Figurative Language Trashketball Game - http://www.ereadingworksheets.com/figurative-language/figurative-langua…
- Poetry Scrap Book - http://www.ereadingworksheets.com/figurative-language/figurative-langua…
Process
metaphors: http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/figures-metaphor.htm
personification: http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/figures-similes-list.htm
paradox: https://www.wordnik.com/words/paradox
onomatopoeia: http://www.onomatopoeialist.com/
oxymoron: http://www.jimwegryn.com/Words/Oxymora.htm
hyperbole: https://www.wordnik.com/words/hyperbole