FIGURATIVE

LANGUAGE IN
NARRATIVE WRITING

Ms. Lewis

OBJECTIVE

Write this in the Questions/Main

Ideas section of your cornell
notes:
Recognize and write different
forms of figurative language that
can be used in narrative writing.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION

Write this at the top of your

cornell notes:
How can we, as young
authors, provide descriptive
details to our readers?

NEARPOD PRE-QUIZ

SIMILE
Comparison using like or as
My legs, arms, torso, underarms,
and parts of my eyebrows have been
stripped of the Muff, leaving me like
a plucked bird, ready for roasting.
-Hunger Games
Thats my girl. Tough as cotton
balls.-Divergent

SIMILE

My legs, arms, torso,

underarms, and parts of my
eyebrows have been
stripped of the Muff, leaving
me like a plucked bird,
ready for roasting. Hunger
Games

SIMILE

My legs, arms, torso,

underarms, and parts of my
eyebrows have been
stripped of the Muff, leaving
me like a plucked bird, ready
for roasting. Hunger Games

SIMILE

Thats my girl. Tough

as cotton balls.
-Divergent

SIMILE

Thats my girl. Tough

as cotton balls.
-Divergent

CREATE YOUR OWN

SIMILE

METAPHOR
Comparison saying that one thing is
another thing
Jonas had become a rock. He could
not move, but yet knew his
existence. The Giver
With the brass nozzle in his fi sts,
with this great python spitting its
venomous kerosene upon the
world Fahrenheit 451

METAPHOR

Jonas had become a rock.

He could not move, but yet
knew his existence. The
Giver

METAPHOR

Jonas had become a rock. He

could not move, but yet knew
his existence. The Giver

METAPHOR

With the brass nozzle in his

fists, with this great python
spitting its venomous kerosene
upon the world Fahrenheit
451

METAPHOR

With the brass nozzle in his

fists, with this great python
spitting its venomous kerosene
upon the world Fahrenheit
451

CREATE YOUR OWN

METAPHOR

PERSONIFICATION
Giving and animal or inanimate
object human characteristics
Thats how I feel now totally
stunned as the name bounces around
the inside of my skull. Hunger
Games
Jonas had completely stripped
naked of his tunic, whos arms seem
to entangle him. The Giver

PERSONIFICATION

Thats how I feel now totally

stunned as the name bounces
around the inside of my skull.
Hunger Games

PERSONIFICATION

Thats how I feel now totally

stunned as the name bounces
around the inside of my skull.
Hunger Games

PERSONIFICATION

Jonas had completely stripped

naked of his tunic, whos arms
seem to entangle him. The
Giver

PERSONIFICATION

Jonas had completely stripped

naked of his tunic, whose arms
seem to entangle him. The
Giver

CREATE YOUR OWN

PERSONIFICATION

IMAGERY
Descriptive and imaginative details within a
sentence
Just past the Abnegation sector of the city is
the stretch of building skeletons and broken
sidewalks that I now walk through. There are
places where the road has completely
collapsed, revealing sewer systems and
empty subways that I have to be careful to
avoid Divergent
He saw himself in her eyes, suspended in
two shining drops of bright water, himself
dark and tiny, in fi ne detail, the lines about
his mouth, everything there, as if her eyes

IMAGERY
Just past the Abnegation sector of
the city is the stretch of building
skeletons and broken sidewalks that
I now walk through. There are
places where the road has
completely collapsed, revealing
sewer systems and empty subways
that I have to be careful to avoid
Divergent

IMAGERY
Just past the Abnegation sector of
the city is the stretch of building
skeletons and broken sidewalks that
I now walk through. There are
places where the road has
completely collapsed, revealing
sewer systems and empty subways
that I have to be careful to avoid
Divergent

IMAGERY

He saw himself in her eyes,

suspended in two shining drops of
bright water, himself dark and
tiny, in fine detail, the lines about
his mouth, everything there, as if
her eyes were two miraculous bits
of violet amber might capture and
hold him intact. Fahrenheit 451

IMAGERY

He saw himself in her eyes,

suspended in two shining drops of
bright water, himself dark and
tiny, in fine detail, the lines about
his mouth, everything there, as if
her eyes were two miraculous bits
of violet amber might capture and
hold him intact. Fahrenheit 451

CREATE YOUR OWN

IMAGERY

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