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 a metaphor?

• Giving human traits to animal or non-living things

• Comparison using like or as

• Extreme exaggeration

• Comparison without like or as

“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

The book was a spaceship that transported him to strange new worlds.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

The boy was standing like a statue on the sidewalk in everyone's way.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole