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Figurative Language

Here are the answers to the practice questions: 1. Prisoner (vehicle), meaning someone who is trapped and unable to leave. Type of figurative language is metaphor. 2. Shining star (vehicle), meaning someone who is talented, successful, or admired. Type is metaphor. 3. Music (vehicle), meaning something that is pleasant or enjoyable to hear. Type is metaphor. 4. Wheels (vehicle), meaning a motor vehicle such as a car. Type is metaphor. 5. Blood (vehicle), meaning new people or new ideas. Type is metaphor. 6. Brilliant son (vehicle), meaning someone who is very intelligent but failed out of college. Type is irony

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Figurative Language

Here are the answers to the practice questions: 1. Prisoner (vehicle), meaning someone who is trapped and unable to leave. Type of figurative language is metaphor. 2. Shining star (vehicle), meaning someone who is talented, successful, or admired. Type is metaphor. 3. Music (vehicle), meaning something that is pleasant or enjoyable to hear. Type is metaphor. 4. Wheels (vehicle), meaning a motor vehicle such as a car. Type is metaphor. 5. Blood (vehicle), meaning new people or new ideas. Type is metaphor. 6. Brilliant son (vehicle), meaning someone who is very intelligent but failed out of college. Type is irony

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Figurative Language

• Figurative interpretation = explicature


• It involves treating one or more words as they
had meanings different from their literal ones.
• Context is used not only as a foundation for
inferring which referents are being talked
about and which senses of ambiguous
expressions are possibly to be the intended
ones, but also to decide whether any
meanings should be replaced to generate
figurative explicature.
Figurative Language
1. Irony
2. Presuppositions
3. Metonymy
4. Metaphor
5. Simile
Irony
• A figure of speech used to express the exact
opposite of its literal meaning

• E.g. Yay! I love having homework over the


weekend.
Presuppositions
• A figurative language about the forecast,
conjecture, or preconceptions.
Presuppositions occur when the hearer and
the speaker have the same compatibility and
basic knowledge (common knowledge).
Presuppostions
• Examples
1. Jane no longer writes fiction. Presupposition:
Jane once wrote fiction.
2. Have you stopped eating meat?
Presupposition: You had once eaten meat.
3. Have you talked to Achmad Yani?
Presupposition: Achmad Yani exists.
Metonymy
• A person or object being referred to using as the
vehicle a word whose literal denotation is
somehow pertinently related.
• Metonym vehicles must be distinctive properties
of the people or objects referred to. The vehicle
must also be relevant in the context of utterance.
• The term for a figuratively-used word (or phrase)
is vehicle. The vehicles carries the figurative
meaning.
Metonymy
1. The White House declared that we are at war
with Mars. “The White House” is a
metonymy for “The President”.
2. After leading the rebellion, he seized the
throne. “The throne” is a metonymy for
“absolute power” of “the power to rule”.
Metaphor
• A metaphor is a figure of speech that
compares one thing to another thing.
Metaphors do not use the word like or as.
• E.g. Yayan has a heart of a lion
• The students are busy bees.
Simile
• A comparison of two different things using the
words, like or as.
• E.g. on her first day of school, Emma was as
cool as a cucumber.
Practice
• Answer the questions no 2-4 page 90-91
• State the vehicles of the following sentences and the
meanings. And the type of figurative language.
1. She was a prisoner in her home.
2. Yani is a shining star in our classroom.
3. The information was music to Achmad’s ears.
4. I’ve hot a new set of wheels
5. We need some new blood in the organization.
6. This is my brilliant son who failed out of college.
7. She’s a great singer who sings like a crow.

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