DID YOU KNOW...

..that figurative language.. is a type of language that varies from the norms of literal language, in which
words mean exactly what they say.

..also known as “ornaments of language”, figurative language does not mean exactly what it says, but
instead forces the reader to make an imaginative leap in order to comprehend the author’s point.

3 categories:

FIGURES OF THOUGHT- are also called tropes. A trope is the meaning a word has other than its literal
meaning. Trope refers to chabge or turn, using a word in other than its literal sense, such as in
comparison.

e.g. simile, metaphor, irony, personification

FIGURES OF SPEECH- are also called rhetorical figures or schemes. Rhetorical figures, depart, not from
the literal meaning of the words, but from the standard usage or order of the words (or some other
departure other than in meaning) thus making a special effect.

e.g. Apostrophe, chiasmus, antithesis, and rhetorical question

FIGURES OF SOUND

-include the sound effect devices discussed