Lower Primary

Figurative language
Defining

Type of figurative
Examples of figurative language 4

Implications for teaching 3
Samples activities 3

“used in some way other than the main or usual meaning, to suggest a picture in the mind or make a comparison” (Longman Dictionary of English
Language and Culture 1992: 475).

Metaphor

My love is a rose
Rose Love

Qualities of the rose
Beauty

Fragance
Softness

Carry over

Qualities of the love
Beauty Fragance Softness

Examples of the figurative language

Violence is the cancer of modern society
Violence Cancer

 A figurative extension of a common

meaning  An intrinsic part of the lexicon of the native speaker.  a build-vocabulary skill(to understand and generate figurative extension)

Jane's ego is very fragile and she is easily crushed, so you have to handle her with care
 The metaphor is out of the

underlying The mind is a brittle object

The store, where a window was found to be smashed, is only a stone's throw from the county police headquarters
Idiom

Could help to memorize

I have the rages that small animals have, being small, being animal. Written on me was a message, 'At your Service' like a book of paper matches. One by one we were taken out and struck. We come bearing supper, our heads on fire.

Figurative language is so far. He compares herself and her

aunts to a book of matches He use the comparison rage/Matches We can find in journals and literary text

Implications for teaching

The learner needs to

disconnect the connections in the utterance through a process of inference.

Comprehending that two things which do not normally collocate together are being compared or brought together; —Deducing which features of the one are salient in the comparison; —Reinterpreting how the meaning of the other is altered when these salient features are applied to it.
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Figurative meanings range from those recorded in