Figurative Language

What is a simile?

• comparison between two items using the words like or as

• comparison between two items that DOES NOT use the words like or as

• giving human characteristics to non-human things

• an outrageous exaggeration that emphasizes a point

• when a word has its own meaning but is used to represent something entirely different

What is a metaphor?

• comparison between two items using the words like or as

• comparison between two items that DOES NOT use the words like or as

• giving human characteristics to non-human things

• an outrageous exaggeration that emphasizes a point

• when a word has its own meaning but is used to represent something entirely different

What is personification?

• comparison between two items using the words like or as

• comparison between two items that DOES NOT use the words like or as

• giving human characteristics to non-human things

• an outrageous exaggeration that emphasizes a point

• when a word has its own meaning but is used to represent something entirely different

What is hyperbole?

• comparison between two items using the words like or as

• comparison between two items that DOES NOT use the words like or as

• giving human characteristics to non-human things

• an outrageous exaggeration that emphasizes a point

• when a word has its own meaning but is used to represent something entirely different

What is symbolism?

• comparison between two items using the words like or as

• comparison between two items that DOES NOT use the words like or as

• giving human characteristics to non-human things

• an outrageous exaggeration that emphasizes a point

• when a word has its own meaning but is used to represent something entirely different

Select all the examples of a simile.

• I'm gonna come after you like a spider monkey.

• Light as a feather, stiff as a board.

• You and I, we're like diamonds in the sky.

• Boy, you got my heartbeat running away.

• Life is a highway. I wanna ride it all night long.

Select all the examples of metaphor.

• This is the worst day of my life!

• Hot like wasabi when I bust rhymes.

• My heart's a stereo. It beats for you so listen close.

• Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

• You are the thunder and I am the lightning.

Select all the examples of personification.

• They high yellow moon won't come out to play.

• And when you smile. The whole world stops and stares for awhile.

• You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes.

• Now I'm floating like a butterfly. Stinging like a bee I earned my stripes.

• The way you move is like a full on rainstorm.

Select all the examples of hyperbole.

• I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more. Just to be the man who'd walk a 1000 miles to fall down at your door.

• The stars lean down to kiss you and I like awake and miss you.

• It's raining men, Hallelujah it's raining men, amen.

• I can only tell you what it feels like. And right now there's a steel knife in my windpipe

• Time stands still. Beauty in all she is.

Select all the examples of symbolism.

• For the first time in forever, there'll be music, there'll be light.

• Her eyes, her eyes make the stars look like they're not shining.

• Sometimes I cry because I am on my own.

• Life is not the amount of breaths you take...It's the moments that take your breath away.

• Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars.