Language Arts Grade Four

Unit Eighteen, Lesson Three: Figurative Language

  1. telephone
  2. pheasant
  3. photograph
  4. metaphor
  5. chlorophyll
  6. wildflowers
  7. lupine
  8. daisy
  9. sunflower
  10. survival
  1. seedling
  2. annual
  3. garlic
  4. dairy
  5. petal
  6. gamble
  7. build
  8. speed
  9. stalk
  10. faster
Figurative Language

Sometimes people don't say exactly what they mean. Sometimes they use figurative language to get their point across rather than saying what they literally mean. Consider this example: 


  LITERAL: This meat is really greasy.

  FIGURATIVE; This meat is so greasy it slides right off the plate.
In both sentences the point is that a piece of meat is greasy. In the second sentence figurative language is used to state this same idea in a more interesting manner.

Here is another example: 


  LITERAL: The fog was very thick.

  FIGURATIVE: The fog like soup.
Both sentences convey the idea that the fog was thick. The first one uses literal language to state the idea and the second uses figurative language.

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