What is figurative language?
Figurative language uses words to mean something other than the dictionary or literal meaning. Literal language- describes how something actually looks, feels, or sounds. Ex: She looked pretty. He is flying through the air in an airplane. Figurative Language- describes something by comparing it to something else or by using words in a creative way. Ex: She is a train roaring down the hallway to her class. The muscles in his arms looked like bowling balls. Figurative language is language that uses figures of speech in order to convey an image or an emotion. Literal language, on the other hand, uses only the straight, dictionary definitions of words to communicate. You might think that literal language would communicate more exactly; sometimes it does, but not if you are trying to communicate a description of something or an emotion. Here are some examples: Literal language: You are a good person. Figurative language: You are a jewel. Literal language: I am disappointed. Figurative language: My heart is heavy. Literal language: You feel quite happy. Figurative language: You soar like an eagle. Literal language: The sun was out. Figurative language: The sun smiled down upon the fields below. Literal language: The surf was rough. Figurative language: The waves crashed angrily over the bow of the ship. The three figures of speech below have something in common. They are comparisons of unlike objects. Simile uses an indicator word such as "like" or "as" to tell the reader that a comparison is coming. Examples: snow falling like petals from a white rose a leafless tree, creaky as an old house Metaphor uses no such indicator words. Examples: The wind is a signal of trouble in the sky. the inky clouds of night Personification is a simile or a metaphor (that is, with or without indicator words) that gives human quality to a non-human thing. Examples: wind sighing over the lost daylight the oak tree standing silent, like a sentinel at the gate
Is this figurative language? If so what type?
"No longer rooted, but gold, flowing. I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me" is this personification or no? its a person describing themselves as flowing gold. what type of figurative language is this if it is, need help thanks
Is sarcasm a type of figurative language?
Yes, it is.
How is figurative language present in Hamlet?
How is it present? It’s present because Shakespeare wrote the play using figurative imagery as well as literal descriptions and conversational language.Why is it present? Because imagery enriches and deepens meaning and significance.Specifics? That’s on you, kiddo. Otherwise, if we do the work for you, you won’t have learned a darned thing. Get to work!
Are there any languages that don't have figurative language?
Not sure, this is exactly what you are looking for, but it does seem related. I remember reading an article by a Soviet linguist, who explored minor Caucasian languages. Unfortunately, now I don't have access to the magazine, nor do I remember the name of the language, but I have remembered the example she gives for ever.In the language she wrote about, the verb conjugation depends on the noun-class of the subject (among other things).So, she asked a native speaker, able to speak Russian as well, to translate the sentence "A man said smth." Than "A child said smth." After that she asked to translate "A horse said smth.", and then the problem began as the native speaker told her that horses don't speak, so no one would utter such a sentence. The linguist explained, that, for example, in a fairy tale it is possible, a after a few minutes of arguing, she finally got the translation. And after that, she took courage and asked to translate "A stone said smth." The speaker became angry, told her that thing was absolutely impossible and there is no way to express it, and their conversation was over.
Is figurative language considered syntax?
Syntax = the rules for the way words are put together to make sentences. /the boy ate the apple/ has a subject - the boy a verb - ate an object - the apple. That's the syntax - it describes the grammar, describes what parts of speech the different words are, and how they fit together in the sentence. It doesn't matter what the words are saying, and whether they're straightforward and factual - the boy ate the apple or whether they're figurative: the boy wolfed the apple there's still a subject, a verb and an object - this verb happens to be figurative, comparing the hungry boy to a starving wolf chomping up the apple. The syntax is the same. So - the syntax describes the structure of the sentence, but not the meaning or the tone given by figures of speech. hope that helps
My friend says he has a "thorn in his side". Is this figurative language or was he being literal?
It is an expression which means something that is a continual irritation—a source of continual annoyance or trouble…etc..Or he has a literal thorn poking him in the ribs..