Figurative Language

a kind of writing that uses figures of speech or poetic devices to make comparisons or to create visual images in the reader’s mind. They do this to make the reader think about a topic in a new or different way.

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Figurative Language

• Imagery

When the writer has words that start with the same sound or letter close together in a sentence or close together in lines of poetry.

• Imagery

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

when the writer has two or more words that start with a vowel or vowel sounds (A E I O U). These words are always placed close together in a sentence or close together in lines of poetry.

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Personification

• Simile

When a writer says that something is something other than what it really is. They do this to make a comparison and to point out some way that the two very different things actually are similar in some way and they want the reader to see the similarity. The writer does this to make the reader see the similarity and to make the reader understand something profound about the thing that is being compared.

• Figurative Language

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Imagery

When a writer says something is like something else. They do this to make a comparison of two very different things and to point out that the two very different things are actually similar in some way. The writer does this to make the reader see the similarity and to make the reader understand something profound about the thing that is being compared. The writer will use words: Like, As, Than, Compare, Similar, Resemble to create the comparison.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Simile

When the writer gives things that are not living the ability to do the things a living being would do or when a writer makes a thing that is not living seem as if it is alive then they are using personification.

• Figurative Language

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration