figurative language

“Cars come and go like frantic ants.”

• personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Allusion

“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

When two or more words close together in a story or poem start with the same consonant sound.

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Personification

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

“Crack” went the bat as the pitcher hit a home run.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopeia

• Alliteration

Sarah was so quiet that she had an absent presence.

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Metaphor

The street cars are like frosted cakes covered with snowflakes.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

She was a Good Samaritan when she helped the old lady.

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

When a writer compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

The fire hungrily devoured everything in its path.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Allusion