Oscars. Oscar night is one of the biggest award show evenings of the year, but it's also one of the longest. Between the red carpet coverage and questions about what celebrities are wearing and Oscar speeches and awards to people we've never heard of, film buffs plan a whole night around this event.
Definition: Figurative language is a word or phrase that departs from everyday literal language for the sake of comparison, emphasis, clarity, or freshness. Metaphor and simile are the two most commonly used figures of speech, but things like hyperbole, synecdoche, puns, and personification are also figures of speech.
Figurative Language. Read the text below. Pay attention to the figurative language in this passage. The 1930s was a difficult decade for Americans. Under the cloud of the Great Depression, the average American learned to do without comforts and luxuries.Many had to do without necessities, such as groceries and gasoline.ow letâs figure out what figurative language in the text means. A chart is useful for organizing information as we follow these steps: 1  Identify examples of figurative language by looking for comparisons between two unlike things.