Figurative Language

”A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open”.-Frank Zappa

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

“I like to walk in the woods and see what Mother Nature is wearing.” - Flannery O'Connor, Good Country People

• hyperbole

• allusion

• personification

• idiom

“I was quaking from head to foot, and could have hung my hat on my eyes, they stuck out so far.” - Mark Twain, Old Times on the Mississippi

• hyperbole

• personification

• allusion

• idiom

”Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary,” - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven"

• metaphor

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• allusion

“Conscience is a man’s compass.” - Vincent Van Gogh

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

• idiom

The pencil danced across the paper

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• symbol

Life is like a box of chocolates

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

• alliteration

It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• symbol

I had to hurry home to help cook ham for dinner

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

What is a simile?

• Comparing two unlike things using as, like, or than

• An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally

• Words that sound like their meaning

• A comparison between two things not using like or as