Literal vs Figurative Language

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literal language (denotation) definition

You say exactly what you mean

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Figurative Language definition

You don't say exactly what you mean

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My dog is as smelly as dirty socks.

Figurative Language : Simile Example

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He's faster than a speeding train!

Figurative Language: Hyperbole (an exaggeration so huge no one could believe it) Example

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It is raining outside.

Literal Language Example

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Without a/c the car was a furnace.

Figurative Language: Metaphor (A comparison without using like or as) Example

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The last piece of candy was just calling my name!

Figurative Language: Personification (giving human qualities to non-human things) Example

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We don't see eye to eye!

Figurative Language: Idiom (an expression that says one thing but means something else) Example