Figurative Language

Define simile:

• Compare two things without using "like" or "as."

• Compares two things using "like" or "as."

• An expression that has a special meaning.

• A word that imitates a sound

Define metaphor:

• Compares two things without using "like" or "as"

• Compares two things using "like" or "as"

• The repetition of two or more beginning sounds in a sentence.

• An extreme exaggeration

Define Idiom:

• A word that imitates a sound

• An exptreme exaggeration

• An expression that has a special meaning.

• A word that imitates a sound.

Define Alliteration

• The same beginning sound is used repeatedly in a sentence

• An expression that has a special meaning.

• Compares two things without using "like or "as."

• An extreme exaggeration

Define Onomatopoeia:

• A word that imitates a sound.

• Compares two things using "like" or "as."

• An expression that has a special meaning.

• An extreme exaggeration.

Define Hyperbole:

• Compares two things using "like" or "as."

• When the same sound is repeated in a sentence.

• A word that imitates a sound.

• An extreme exaggeration.

Define Personification:

• Comparing two things without using "like or "as."

• An expression that has a special meaning.

• When non-human objects are given human characteristics.

• An extreme exaggeration.

Jon turned as red as a rose when his crush spoke to him.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Alliteration

Keaton hunted mushrooms like a lion on the safari.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Krisalyn was lightning as she read her favorite book.

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• simile