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Figurative Language/Sensory Detail
Figurative language deepens and extends the meaning of a poem or other literary work by presenting objects or ideas form a different perspective than the usual one.The following are types of figurative language:
Similes- comparisons between unlike things using LIKE or AS
Metaphors – comparisons that do not use LIKE or AS
Sensory detail create’s images that appeal to the reader’s senses. Reference to taste, touch, smell, hearing, sight, are all sensory details.
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Terms – LA
Terms – LA
- Comparison – to set side by side in order to show differences and likenesses, to
- Literal – characterized by a concern mainly with facts
- Figurative - expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another with which it may be regarded as analogous
- Theme- the insight or message that an author conveys in a piece of writing
- Simile – a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words like, as, appear, seem
