Figurative Language

What is a METAPHOR?

• A way of comparing two things using the words "like" or "as."

• When we say one thing is another to show how they're alike

• Gives human qualities to things that aren't human, like animals or objects.

• When the author uses words to create a picture in our minds.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a SIMILE?

• A way of comparing two things using the words "like" or "as."

• When we say one thing is another to show how they're alike

• Gives human qualities to things that aren't human, like animals or objects.

• When the author uses words to create a picture in our minds.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is PERSONIFICATION?

• A way of comparing two things using the words "like" or "as."

• When we say one thing is another to show how they're alike

• Gives human qualities to things that aren't human, like animals or objects.

• When the author uses words to create a picture in our minds.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What is IMAGERY?

• A way of comparing two things using the words "like" or "as."

• When we say one thing is another to show how they're alike

• Gives human qualities to things that aren't human, like animals or objects.

• When the author uses words to create a picture in our minds.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is an ONOMATOPOEIA?

• When the same beginning sound is repeated in a group of words.

• When words sound like the noises they describe. It adds sound effects to the writing.

• A way of comparing two things using the words "like" or "as."

• An extreme exaggeration of a situation.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is an HYPERBOLE?

• When the same beginning sound is repeated in a group of words.

• When words sound like the noises they describe. It adds sound effects to the writing.

• A way of comparing two things using the words "like" or "as."

• An extreme exaggeration of a situation.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is a IDIOM?

• When the same beginning sound is repeated in a group of words.

• When words sound like the noises they describe. It adds sound effects to the writing.

• A phrase that means something different from it's literal meaning.

• An extreme exaggeration of a situation.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

"Break a leg."

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

"I walked a million miles to get here."

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"Lightning danced across the sky"

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D