Figurative Language

What is the definition of figurative language?

• Using words in a literal way to express ideas

• Using words in an imaginative way to express ideas

• Using words in a scientific way to express ideas

• Using words in a historical way to express ideas

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Which is an example of alliteration?

• It smells like cookies in here.

• I like dogs as much as I like cats.

• Bossy Ms. Benitez went to Bonita Beach.

• The water was blue.

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Which is an example of a hyperbole?

• Let your hair down.

• She's such a Grinch!

• The ants were marching down the sidewalk.

• My backpack weighs 7 tons!

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What is an example of an idiom?

• I'm the happiest Christmas tree!

• The Elf on the Shelf.

• Hold your horses, you're going way too fast!

• That road is as old as dirt.

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What is an example of a simile?

• It was as tall as a giraffe.

• I cannot breathe.

• The leaves danced in the wind.

• I wasn't born yesterday.

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What is an example of a metaphor?

• I can't wait for winter break!

• I am a slug when I run.

• Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers.

• Boom!

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What is an example of onomatopoeia?

• I wasn't born yesterday.

• The carolers sang fa la la la la as they stood in the cold.

• I'd walk a thousand miles.

• She caught a cold.

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What is an example of personification?

• The tree is tiny.

• The sky misses the sun at night.

• My iPad is broken.

• I can't wait for winter break!

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What is an example of an allusion?

• He studies all the time and is a regular Einstein!

• I want to go to the county fair.

• I love singing in the car.

• You light up my life.

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What is an example of imagery?

• The smell of the fresh cut grass was an amazing way to start my day.

• Focus on yourself.

• I told you a million times to turn in your work!

• I want to be a couch potato this weekend.

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