Figurative Language

What is a simile?

• Comparison without like or as

• Figure of speech connecting to contradictory terms

• Comparison using like or as

• Extreme exaggeration

What is personification?

• Figure of speech putting together two contradictory terms

• Extreme exaggeration

• Giving human-like qualities to inanimate objects and animals

• Comparing two things without like or as

What is hyperbole?

• Repetition of the same sound

• Extreme exaggeration

• Giving human traits to animal or non-living things

• Comparing two things without like or as

What is a metaphor?

• Giving human traits to animal or non-living things

• Comparison using like or as

• Extreme exaggeration

• Comparison without like or as

I've told you a million times to clean your room!

• Alliteration

• Personification

• metaphor

• Hyperbole

“I tell her of my father’s great herd, and how they would graze each day, walking for miles, the sun in our bones, the grass whispering its shy music.”

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

Rachel is a walking encyclopedia.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Idiom

“Cars come and go like frantic ants.”

• personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Allusion

The sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle.

• hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Repetition

The restless children were hopping about like kernels in a corn popper.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Idiom