Figurative Language

What is a type of communication that does not use a word's strict or realistic meaning

• Figurative Language

• Talking

• Words

a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory (opposite) terms appear together

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Point of View

a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another. Uses the words “like” or “as”

• Characters

• Symbols

• Simile

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

• Metaphor

• Boom

• Setting

The attribution of human characteristics or qualities to something nonhuman

• Quickly

• Magnets

• Personification

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• Sequencing

• Alliteration

• Chronological

The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

• Sounds

• Names

• Onomatopoeia

Match the following

• Alliteration

• • "Splash, Clang, Crash" are examples of

• Personification

• "The classroom was a zoo" is an example of

• Metaphor

• "The sun slowly slipped below the horizon" is an example of

• Onomatopoeia

• "The flowers danced to the wind" is an example of

• Personification

• "Polly's prancing pony performed perfectly" is an example of

"As slow as a sloth" is an example of

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron

"Small crowd" is an example of

• Metaphor

• a sentence

• Oxymoron