Figurative Language

Giving an object or idea human behaviors, actions, or thoughts

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

Comparing two things together in an interesting or imaginative way, using "like" or "as" 

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

A word that names a sound but also sounds like that sound

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Onomonopeia

A comparison of two things that sounds like a statement, using words like "are", "is", and "was" and is not literally true

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperole

• Alliteration

A figure of speech you use when you want to exaggerate what you mean or emphasize a point

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Simile

The repetition of letters or sounds that are used to emphasize or stress the importance

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

" I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse "

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

"Sally sells seashells by the seashore"

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Boing, gargling, clap, zap, and pitter-patter

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Onomotopoeia

• Metaphor

"As slow as a sloth"

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification