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1、1. What is figurative language?2. Can you suggest some common types of figurative language?Figurative language is often used to help readers imagine what is happening in a text.Simile and metaphor.Warming up3. Have you ever used this kind of language? If you have, can you give some examples?My love
2、is like a red, red rose. Robert BurnsA simile:A metaphor:Its raining cats and dogs.An idiom:No news is good news.A euphemism:Senior citizens are respectedin our country.Simile and metaphorSimile: 1. What is a simile? A simile is a comparison of two different things that are not usually thought to be
3、 similar.2. What words are used in similes? 3. How to make a simile effective?Readers must be familiar with the things being compared. As and like.Analyse the following similes:using as:Bob runs as quickly as a deer.By comparing Bob to a deer, his speed is emphasized and made more obvious.using like
4、:He loved to camp, and his job was like a holiday for him.Here the job is compared to holiday to express the person really enjoys his work and finds it relaxing.MetaphorWhat is a metaphor?Metaphor is when you use two nouns and compare or contrast them to one another. Unlike simile, you dont use as o
5、r like in the comparison. e.g. Something is something.Analyse the following metaphors:As a business person, you cant be a mouse. You have to be a tiger.You cant be a timid person. You should be a brave person.For lawyers, a courtroom is a battlefield.A lawyer is compared to a fighter. He must fight
6、to win cases here.Going to work everyday became a chore for him, and he could hardly wait to find a new and exciting job.Work is compared to a chore. This work is boring and the speaker is tired of it.Practice1. Im not as timid as a rabbit.2. I am not Angel.3. You are as blind as a bat. 4. Im drowni
7、ng in art.5. His feet are as big as boats.6. I am a rainbow.SimileMetaphorSimileSimileMetaphorMetaphor7. He was a big bear of a man.8. He has a heart of gold.9. The old mans hair was as white as snow.10. The sun is like a yellow ball of fire in the sky.MetaphorSimileMetaphorSimile11. The day we pass
8、ed together for a while seemed a bright fire on a winters night.12. You are like a hurricane: theres calm in your eye, but Im getting blown away.SimileSimileIf you want to beIf you want to be a spy like James Bond 007, you need to be as cool as a cucumber and as sly as a foxand you need cast iron ne
9、rves.simileRead and find out the figurative language.metaphorIf you want to be a model, you need to be as tall as a tree and eat like a bird.If you want to be an actor,And a martial arts expert like Jackie Chan, you can not be a weed.similemetaphorIf you want to be successful like Bill Gates, you ne
10、ed to have a mind like a computerand be as sharp as a spear in business.similesimileIf you want to be a magician like David Copperfield, you need to make people see that black is white and white is black.If you want to succeed in life,you need to be as hungry as a lion. metaphorsimileFill in blanks.
11、figurative language Meaningsbe a weedas hungry as a lionas sharp as a spearblack is white and white is blackcast-iron nervesweak and not bravewanting sth. very muchvery cleverthings appear differenta very strong willfigurative language Meaningsas sly as a fox eat like a birdas tall as a treeclever a
12、t tricking otherseat very littlevery tallMy life is a dreamMy life is a dream, like a tiger wakingup from her deep sleep.My life is like a dream, its all up to me, the trees are purple, the stars walk away the night, the moaning moon lights up the sky.HomeworkFind the figurative language in this poem.
