Figurative Language

a comparison between two unlike things, not using like or as

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

a comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

The guy reeked like moldy garlic pizza wrapped in gym shorts.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• extreme exaggeration

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• I waited in the dark for what seemed like forever.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Mrs. Dodds was a sand castle in a power fan.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

giving an object human qualities

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

On this side of the house, the valley marched all of the way up to the water.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

(a)    is the narrator’s position in the story being told. It shows the opinion or feelings of the individual involved in a situation.

• Point of view is when the narrator is a character in the story; uses the pronouns I, me, and my.

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person