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Figurative Language/Sensory Detail

Posted in Terms/Definitions by on the October 21, 2009

Senses Man 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.

Terms – LA

Posted in Terms/Definitions by on the September 16, 2009

Terms – LA

  1. Comparison – to set side by side in order to show differences and likenesses, to
  2. Literal – characterized by a concern mainly with facts
  3. Figurative - expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another with which it may be regarded as analogous
  4. Theme- the insight or message that an author conveys in a piece of writing
  5. Simile – a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words like, as, appear,  seem