Monday, January 24, 2011

Our Next Blog Question

The following question needs to be answered by Friday, January 28th, 2011:

Based on what you know about figurative language, which type of figurative language (simile, metaphor, personification, or hyperbole) do you use, see, hear most often? Justify your choice.

45 comments:

Anonymous said...

I hear similes most often because when the speaker is talking about something he/she may use a simile to draw the listeners imagination to the point of view or understand the concept the speaker is saying.
-* Miranda S.(:

Anonymous said...

I think the kid of figurative language I use the most is similes because I use like a lot in a sentence to explain something.





~La'Naya Willis

Anonymous said...

I use the hyperbole the most. i like being silly so i tend to overexaggerate things like if im hungry ill tell my mom,mom is dinner done i will die if i dont eat in the next ten seconds.



Jazmine Cheek

Anonymous said...

I hear Metaphors, Similes, Hyperboles, ect... all of the time. I hear Hyperboles the most though. A lot of my friends and even me might say on a cold day "" IT'S LIKE MINUS 20 OUTSIDE!!!!!'' when it might only be five degrees. I also hear some people say a lot '' That test was beyond hard'' when it might only be hard but not beyond hard. Hyperboles are deffinitly the thing I hear most from people.

Arianna (: <3 B) ;p :D :O

Anonymous said...

simile. because I hear my grandparents also see them using it alot explaing every thing sence they `re country.so when say anything to them they ask me how im doing in school and i say good ,then they your smart as a your motherboy.

By Cason .B. Wagner

Anonymous said...

-Shaniece- I would say a simile. I would say a simile because not only do people use it in the real world we use it here in scholl too. Also in my opinion it is the most easiest of the figurative language.

Anonymous said...

The type of figurative language i mostly use and see people use is simile,because when people try to create a vivid picture they use simile like My uncle is tall like a tree they saying my uncle is very tall.A Simile is a comparison of two unlike things using like or as.

Falastin Abukar

Anonymous said...

the most common figurative language i hear around me is simile. almost every where i go i hear people comparing two unlike words as today i heard people comparing hight. A example is someone in a class was comparing someone that was short to someone that is big. Michael Manuel

SandN said...

The kind of figurative language that I hear, use, and see most often are similes. I say this because they really help someone to explain something, and even if you don't know what a simile is, most people use them anyways without even realizing it!:)
~Sarah B.:):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)

Anonymous said...

I hear simile alot.I all ways use simile if i'm with my friends.we all ways compare someone that we know to a animal that doesn't even look like them. December Aung^-^

Anonymous said...

I mostly hear similes because some people us them in jokes or tv show.My dad use them all the time.So do i because they are fun.
Javiyun Molsey

Anonymous said...

i usually hear metaphors. i hear them because when i go places i hear people or kids saying one or more metaphors. some times my mom corrects me when i say them Shabbak Hampton

Anonymous said...

i usually hear metaphors. i hear them because when i go places i hear people or kids saying one or more metaphors. some times my mom corrects me when i say them Shabbak Hampton

Anonymous said...

i heAR All kinds of similies all the time. metaphors like u ugly pig!!!!!!! similise exagerations like i was busy as a bee. uh ya see people these days are crazy wit these similies.




~from the unknown Munirah

Anonymous said...

*Natale :)
I think that people most use hyperboles because especially kids our age like to exaggerate a lot. For example someone...including me...might say "Wow I have about 10,000 pages of homework tonight" when you really don't have that much work to do. Authors you hyperboles a lot to emphasize an amount or show how much there is of something. A common hyperbole that author's use is it's raining cats and dogs and it means that it is raining really hard.

Natale DiFlorio :-) <3 ;-)

Unknown said...

The kind of figurative language I use,see,hear most often is similes because most people like to compare two things but most of the time, they don't know they're using it. Using similes helps you when you're trying to compare 2 things.

Geneve Cung ^ ^ :)

Anonymous said...

I think the kind of figurative language I use the most would be a hyperbole. I think hyperbole because, I tend to over exaderate things to get what I want , or when I'm not getting way.

~ Marissa Barnett*

Anonymous said...

i hear smilies every where i go.people compare diffrent thing .i also use simile when i talk to my friends out of school. i like using similes they can make alot of sence when u use them the correct way.also people will always rember comparing two thing makes the diffrence instead of say the cat and the dog are big u could say the cat is a big as a dog.
Mukoma Mukoma

Anonymous said...

I use similes alot because when i,m trying to compare two things or when I,m trying to explain a sentence I use LIKE or AS.BONKE RUGIRA

Anonymous said...

I hear similes most because usually when i talk to my friends they always compare two things. An example is the other day we were comparing how big jahmai is and how small yoan is. So that's why i think i hear similes the most.

~Amina B.*

Anonymous said...

some people use similes to creat an imagination or a picture and they use like or as by lucien mpaka

Anonymous said...

some people use similes to creat an imagination and they use like or as lucien mpaka

Anonymous said...

I hear similes more because my brother always makes fun of me by using similes.
Johnny Duong

Anonymous said...

i hear similies the most because people mostly like to decribe things of there own. some kids describe what they have in there imaginaton .by**$$fatumahassan$$**

Anonymous said...

the figurative language i use a lot is hyperboles.I use hyperboles a lot because im always exaggerating.Especially when it's really cold outside or when i have a lot of homework.



Kayla Turner:)

Anonymous said...

I hear hyperbole the most because when people are being over dramatic they say "Omg like she gave us a mountain of homework".


:D Jimmeshia W. !!!!

Anonymous said...

Throughout ther usage of human language, I have aquired the sense that hyperboles are used quite multitaniously. Espeically those of adolecent age, who tend to naturally overact in their expressions.For example, a simple, regular Syracusan snow storm experience someone might say it was "the coldest weather EVER".Compared to others excursions of cold westher of the world, this is nothing at all, resulting in a hyperbole
-Katie Willard

Anonymous said...

I hear hyperboles the most. I hear them the most because my sister uses them almost too much and I use them too when it comes to food.

Tim Willard

Anonymous said...

YASINKULMIYA i hear smile the most becuse a smile is a comparison of two unbike like or as we learn more about it and u till us a lot of time thetas why i chows smile

Anonymous said...

I hear similes the most beacuse when the person talk they might us a simile or to draw or listen and to creat your imagaination. BY COREY BRYANT

Anonymous said...

I hear similes most often beacuse when the speaker is talking about something he/she may use a similes. ~FIKRETA KALJEVIC

Anonymous said...

i hear simile because people say to girl that is a she. people say that is a he and you put those two to gather you make a simile. by ; vladimirfernandez

Anonymous said...

i hear metaphors alot because i watch an lot of active movies that have lots of metaphors and i write metaphors when im writing a poem or story.
~Conell Stepney

Anonymous said...

I hear Similes most often because people who usually say them don't realize it! Hyperboles are also what I usually hear, too. A Hyperbole is a part of figurative language that exaggerates something. I like to use Similes more often, though. Here's one! "you're just about as exiting as watching grass grow. You never can think of anything good to do."

Xavier M. Poirier

Anonymous said...

I hear similes a lot because my family and friends use similes a lot of similes books and movies. Jahziel Sherman

Anonymous said...

People uses similes most of the time as a figurative language because they use like and as when they speak.

-Thweh Bway

Unknown said...

The kind of figurative language I use hear similes because whan u try take a picture u say simile and whan u simile u show that what ther doing is funny



by claude

Anonymous said...

I USE Hyperboles the most because I Play like John Wall.I Hope I Get A 100 Because I all Way Get A 100.

JAHMEER STACKHOUSE

Anonymous said...

I head hyperbole most often. In a lot of advertisement. They use hyperbole to make their products look better or at least seem better. Even my parents used it on me for example they said,"Your pile of cloths is as tall as Mount Everest." They did not mean literally, it was more of a sarcastic and extreme exaggeration.
Joseph Garcia

Anonymous said...

Yo its ya boy,but I think i hear hyperboles the most because alot of things happen in my crib so somtimes my mom or aunty over exaggerate things.Like kapri acts like the walking dead.

KAPRI,KID KAPRI,K-BREEZY
ps fell free to call me these im out peace!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

I hear similes most often because when I read books the author uses similes to make it interesting and they try to create a picture in the readers mind and when people talk to you they sometimes use similes so that you would underatand how (big,small,pretty,etc.)the thing was like.
abshiro a.

Anonymous said...

The one I use is hyperbole because its fun to say extreme exageration and it sounds really cool.The other one I hear sometimes is similie because they try to compare someone to something.

*beatriz rodriguez*

Anonymous said...

i hyperboles most often because when most speakers are talking about most things they use hyperbnoles to say their fellings in extreme ways.
-Cassandra Skye Wren

Anonymous said...

similes because lot of people use similes so they can create a picture in to the other person head.

by Faizan haseeb

Anonymous said...

I hear hyperboles most often . For example , when me and my freinds are joking around we exaggerate about school or home . Or when my mom tells me to do a chores at home .


- $ophia Dayy // Period 3 .