Who knows why we call it figurative language? <br /> Because you have to figure out what it means! <br /> <br />Peggy Smith: Cut out newspaper headlines and titles of articles- especially from the sports section. Paste them on a posterboard and number them. Have students identify the figure of speech by number and explain in concrete terms what the line is saying. Some examples from today's Plain Dealer: 'Buckeyes clip ice-cold Gophers', 'New Crop of Garden Catalogs', 'The Heat is Back on Steel Makers'. These are pretty lame, but usually there are some good pickings in the daily newspaper. <br /> <br />Allegory <br />Alliteration <br />Allusion <br />Amplification <br />Anagram <br />Analogy <br />Anaphora <br />anastrophe <br />Anthropomorphism <br />Animal related words <br />Antithesis <br />Aphorism <br />Apostrophe/Authorial Intrusion <br />Archetype <br />Assonance <br />Asyndeton <br />Bibliomancy <br />Bildungsroman <br />Cacophony <br />Caesura <br />Characterization <br />Chiasmus <br />Circumlocution <br />Conflict <br />Connotation <br />Consonance <br />Denotation <br />Deus ex Machina <br />Diction <br /> Doppelganger <br />Ekphrastic <br />Emulation <br />Epilogue <br />Epithet <br />Euphemism <br />Euphony <br />Faulty Parallelism <br />Flashback <br />Foil <br />Foreshadowing <br />Hyperbation <br />Hyperbole <br />Imagery <br />Internal Rhyme <br />Inversion <br />Irony <br />Juxtaposition <br />Kennings <br />Malapropism <br />Metaphor <br />Metonymy <br />Motif <br />Mood <br />Negative Capability <br />Nemesis <br />Onomatopoeia <br />Oxymoron <br />Paradox <br /> Pathetic Fallacy <br />Periphrasis <br />Periodic Structure <br />Personification <br />Point of View <br />Plot <br />Polysyndeton <br />Portmanteau <br />Prologue <br />Puns <br />Rhyme Scheme <br />Rhythm
