Figurative Language

What is a simile?

• Comparing two things using like or as

• Saying something is something else without using like or as

• An exaggeration

• Giving human characteristics to a non-living thing

What is a metaphor?

• Giving human characteristics to a non-living thing

• Comparing two things using like or as

• comparing two unlike things without using like or as

What is personification?

• Comparing two things using like or as

• Giving human qualities to a non-living thing

• saying something is something else without using like or as

What is hyperbole?

• An exaggeration

• Giving human characteristics to a non-living thing

• comparing two things using like or as

• saying something is something else without using like or as

You are my sunshine

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

I run as fast as a cheetah.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

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

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

The sun misses the sky at night.

• hyperbole

• personification

• metaphor

• simile