Figurative Lang review

What is Figurative Language?

• Language that can be taken literally
• language that cannot be taken literally

Simile:

• comparing using LIKE or AS
• directly comparing
• comparison that extends through the poem

Metaphor: 

• Giving human qualities to nonliving objects
• comparison that extends through the poem
• directly comparing

Extended Metaphor: 

• Making a reference to a famous piece of literature
• comparison that extends through the poem
• comparing using LIKE or AS

Personification: 

• Giving human qualities to nonliving objects
• making reference to a famous piece of literature
• directly comparing

Allusion: 

• making reference to a famous piece of literature
• comparison that extends through the poem
• directly comparing

Hyperbole: 

• story with a moral or a lesson
• exaggeration
• talking to something nonliving as if it is living

Analogy: 

• meaning or feeling associated to a word 
• the dictionary definition
• comparing unlike things with similar qualities

Allegory: 

• Story with moral or lesson
• exaggeration
• the dictionary definition 

Apostrophe: 

• talking to something nonliving as if it is living
• exaggeration
• comparing unlike things with similar qualities