Figurative Language

A chair is dancing when the song begins.

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

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

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

What is a simile?

• Comparing two unlike things using as, like, or than

• An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally

• Words that sound like their meaning

• A comparison between two things not using like or as

Alliteration is...

• an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally

• a comparison using like or as

• repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• Words that sound like their meaning

My backpack weighs a ton!

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

• metaphor

Time is a thief.

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• personification

The evening melted away like a snowflake.

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• simile

The surf surged up as the sun swept the shore.

• simile

• alliteration

• personification

• hyperbole

Homework is a breeze.

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Lisa's lizards were leaping on her lawnchair.

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• personification