welcome to figurative language and introduction to and that's exactly what this is going to be is very much an introduction this is going to lay the foundation for not just our figurative language studies but really our literature literary device studies so let's get into it so figurative language and this will serve as your header for your notes and a description of so figurative language is whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else you are using figurative language and figurative language is any language that goes beyond the literal meaning of words shown on the page in order to furnish new effects or fresh insights into an idea or a subject it is largely or usually a comparison and that's what we'll focus on today are different types of comparisons which the author is going to use to show something in an entirely new light to communicate a certain feeling or attitude towards that whether it be an object a character a setting or otherwise and the author is using this comparison to control the way you the reader is perceiving that thing that they are comparing or describing so so we're going to start our figurative language terms with imagery and imagery is an umbrella term and we'll talk about more more about that on the next slide but imagery dictionary definition or literary definition is the use of descriptive language that appeals to and engages the human senses and in your notes you want to include your term you want to include your definition and on this particular slide you want to also include the information on the five senses because that's what figurative language and imagery are attempting to trigger whether it be sight smell hearing touch or taste whether it is a combination of two or three or a combination of all of them if it's singling one particular human sense out of the rest what you see underneath is a more I will say academic term so site or visual sense your smell or your olfactory senses your auditory senses being your hearing taste gustation touch tactile and imagery really is an umbrella term and what we mean by that is that when we're looking at the text on the page and we're saying that imagery is using descriptive language our personification our simile our metaphor are hyperbole all of our other foundational literary terms or our figurative language terms fall under this umbrella of imagery because personification simile metaphor and hyperbole are all using descriptive language that's appealing to our senses so when we look at imagery it is tempting to slap that label on a particular sentence paragraph example of but we can usually be more specific so when in doubt it more than likely is imagery however it is up to us the Discerning reader to look closer do I have an identifiable type of imagery is this simply imagery or is this making a comparison that I can identify as simile is this exaggerating a moment that I can identify not just as imagery but as hyperbole so we're going to get into these specific examples of imagery starting with simile so this is a figure of speech which involves a direct comparison between two unlike things usually with the words like or as an example might be the muscles on his brawny arms are strong as iron he fought like a lion so your simile will have a big red flag if you see the word like if you see the word as and it's involving a direct comparison between two unlike things in the first example muscles or arms being compared to Iron unlike he presumably a human being compared to a lion to unlike things but the like the as showing us that direct comparison metaphor this is a figure of speech which involves an implied comparison between two relatively unlike things and it'll usually not always usually be identified or have a red flag of a b verb or a 2B verb so your was is are am be being in Ben the comparison is not going to be announced by like or as so if you see like or as simile if you see a to B form that is a good indicator that you might have a metaphor on your hands but it's not the only indicator it's usually not always so in our example the road was a ribbon of moonlight and I'd like to focus on this example just a little bit long because when we think about imagery triggering our different senses this is one of those examples that does well at triggering a combination of and this is a highly Advanced skill when we talk about visualizing what is on a page we might naturally have a movie running in our head and that's part of those senses being triggered but to be immersed into the fictional world that our author is creating and allowing ourselves to be immersed that is what our figurative language that is what our imagery is aiming to help us do so if I'm looking at this comparison Road asphalt I can visualize and see um so my sense of sight is being triggered um asphalt I can kind of have an idea of it would be rough so that tactile is triggered same with the ribbon um sort of a more silky smoother texture so there's different senses being triggered that of course visual is going to perhaps be the first sense but then taking a moment to recognize what other senses does the metaphor does the simile pull out personification is a figure of speech which gives the qualities of a person to an animal an object or an idea and we'll get into more figurative language devices or terms um where we'll see perhaps animalistic qualities being applied to people and that is something different personification is qualities of a person to that animal object or idea so personification can be a tricky term sometimes and we want to notice for example Mighty Oak fell with a creaking rending cry we want to notice when we have an object in this case oak tree trees do not have mouths so they do not have the ability the natural ability to cry out and yet the author is giving this tree that human-like quality of a mouth or a voice to cry last but not least at least in this video we're going to look at hyperbole which is an exaggerated statement used to heighten effect it is not used to mislead but to emphasize a point she said so on several million occasions it's impossible to count keep track of or perhaps even say on several million occasions and yet you can start to picture the image of whoever she is you can hear the exasperation or the frustration in her voice or in her attitude your senses about why this is being exaggerated are starting to picture this moment and feel this moment how it is attempting to be communicated again this was just an introduction to figurative language this is going to be our foundation for later studies so this looked at imagery keep in mind imagery is an umbrella term look at your specific example if you can get more specific you can label it as your simile metaphor personification or hyperbole look for those red flags and look for those Clues because we could easily slap that label of imagery on there but nine times out of ten we can look to see am I able to be more specific are there red flags or are there clues that tell me yes this is imagery but specifically this is blank example of have a fantastic rest of your summer