Figurative language refers to different literary devices to mean something other than the literal meaning of the word. Â Some examples of these devices are: metaphors, onomatopoeia, simile, personification etc. Â
A movie that uses figurative language is: Â "Shreck I". Â There is a dialogue between Donkey and Shreck. Â Shreck is trying to explain why people hate ogres and he says: "Ogres are like onions". Donkey asks: "Is it because they stink? and Shreck answers: "No it's because they have many layers, they are hard to understand." Â The figurative language used is a simile. Â A simile compares two things using the words "as" or "like", meaning they are similar. Â In this case, Shreck gives ogres the characteristics of an onion, in order to describe them without being literal. Â
A song that uses figurative language is: "Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio. Â In this song he uses an allusion. Â An allusion is an intentional bur indirect reference to a story, event, object, person or circumstance from another event, object or circumstance, person, story. Â In the phrase "Been spending most their lives living in a gangsta's paradise", the song compares the biblical paradise to a "gangster's paradise". Â
A commercial that uses figurative language is: Â The Rice Krispies Commercial. Â The characters are called: Snap, Crackle and Pop. Â The figurative language used in this commercial is an onomatopoeia meaning words that imitate sounds. Â In this case, the sounds imitated are sounds suggested by the Rice Krispies.