Teaching Kids Idioms, Oxymorons, Onomatopoeia & More
Teaching Figurative Language to Kids
This is our first attempt to have a group homeschool project online for our kids, in which we’d like to showcase our kid’s work on one particular topic at a time. This group homeschool project topic is “Figurative Language”. Figurative Language is different sayings that do not express its literal meaning.
Below are some types of figurative language, definitions, examples, websites and pictures we drew to help learn about this topic. We’d like to welcome other children to draw funny figurative languages examples, you can scan and email the picture to us, or post them on your blog and trackback to this original post or comment below.
An idiom is is a combination of words that sound idiotic, but the meanings are typically popular and well-known by native speakers. Non-native speakers (foreigners) find them very difficult to understand.
Examples include: icing on the cake, is there a frog in your throat, dead meat.
An oxymoron is a phrase in which two words that typically contradicts themselves (good & bad, ugly & pretty) are used together to stress the point of the speaker.
Examples include: all alone, wise fool, awfully nice, legal murder.
Onomatopoeia is a word used to make a “sound”.
Examples include: meow, woof, bang, tick-tock.
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Simile
Simile is comparing two things using the words “like” or “as”.
Examples include: his nose is as cold as ice, the girl ran like a cheetah.
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Metaphor
Metaphor is a comparison between two things using descriptive or symbolic words without using the words “like” or “as”.
Examples include: My bike is my magical carpet, Juliet (from “Romeo & Juliet”) is the sun.
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Hyperbole
A Hyperbole is a deliberate and obvious exaggeration to stress your point.
Examples include: The oven must be set at 1000 degrees! I could eat a 100, or 1,000,000 of these!
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Personification
Personification is giving life-like qualities to non-living things; making a something ‘like’ a person.
Examples include: The teapot sang & whistled, the printer ate my paper!
We had a ton of fun working on this project one evening. Please join the fun! Grab your crayons, markers and pencils and send your drawing to us via email, or post on your blog & comment below with the link!
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Category: Homeschooling
Adding a link for Alliteration http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/alliteration.html
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Parents need to learn some words too. Do you like these?
WISHJACK v.: To blow out the candles on another child’s birthday cake.
SCOOZER n.: A child who only has something to say to you when you’re on the phone or in the bathroom.
GARBOFLAGE v.: To hide a piece of your child’s artwork under other trash in the wastebasket so they don’t catch you throwing it away.
Check out this video for more: http://youtu.be/tYbjqujLPgk Funny?
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Ponn Sabra Reply:
March 5th, 2011 at 1:25 pm
Definitely got a laugh out of the video! Thanks for sharing.
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