Create an introduction slide. Key in "Figurative Language" as the title of your presentation, along with your name and the date of your presentation.
Title your first slide "What is Figurative Language?" Define your subject as descriptive and poetic language that writers use to paint vivid pictures in their readers' minds and make their subjects more interesting. Explain how figurative language is subjective and personal as opposed to literal language, which is objective, straightforward and unbiased.
Title your next three slides "Literal versus Figurative Language." Provide three illustrations that contrast the two language types. For example, insert a romantic photograph of a couple, flush left on your first slide. Then write on the upper right, "Literal: I love you;" on the lower right, write "Figurative: 'A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.'" (Anonymous quote.)
List different figurative language techniques in the next slide. Indicate common figures of speech, such as the simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, hyperbole, idiom and onomatopoeia. Adjust this list or expand it to suit the grade level or age group of your audience.
Create up to three slides for each figure of speech that you list in the preceding slide. Maintain the same graphic look that you established in earlier slides: An image or animation to the left and the figurative language technique's definition and example to the right. Design one of the three slides specifically to interact with your audience or solicit their input.
Insert, for example, the portrait of Albert Einstein on your first slide on "Similes." On the upper right, define a simile. On the lower right, quote Mr. Einstein: "You see, wire telegraph is like a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles." On your second "Similes" slide, insert a portrait of regular person. Then ask your audience to suggest how to fill in the blanks on the text to the right: "She is as pretty as a (blank). Her eyes are as brown as (blank). Her hair shines like (blank). Her smile is as sweet as (blank)."
Conclude after you have presented your last figurative language technique. Remind your audience of the definition of figurative language and how it differs from literal language. Summarize the different figures of speech that you have discussed.