Figurative Language TEWWG Chapters 1-2

The comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

A comparison of two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as".

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

When an idea or a non-human object is given a human ability or quality.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

A widely used saying or expression containing a figurative meaning that differs from the phrase's literal meaning.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Idiom

A statement containing extreme exaggeration used to emphasize an emotion or a point.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

“Have sympathy fuh me. Put me down easy, Janie, Ah’m a cracked plate.” ~Nanny to Janie

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

The sun was gone, but he had left his footprints in the sky.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long.

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

Words walking without masters; walking together like harmony in a song.

• hyperbole

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification