Figurative Language

My backpack weighs a ton!

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

• metaphor

The evening melted away like a snowflake.

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• simile

Time is a thief.

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• personification

She clattered and clanged as she washed the dishes.

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

Time marches on.

• personification

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Lisa's lizards were leaping on her lawnchair.

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• personification

What is a metaphor?

• Comparing two things in a text
• Comparing two things using like and as
• An over exaggeration 
• Comparing two things without using like and as

Symbolism is...

• Using words to create a joke

• Comparing 2 things using "like" or "as"

• Using extreme exaggeration

• Things represent other ideas or feelings

Imagery is...

• Using the same beginning sound for a string of words

• Using the senses to describe something in detail

• Extreme exaggerations

• Using a thing to represent a feeling or idea

What does it mean to read "allegorically"?

• Read an allegory

• Take the words of the story to mean exactly and only what they say

• Take the words of a story as a hidden message for something else

• Read quickly