Figurative Languages

I don’t think Alex is feeling well today, he looks as pale as a ghost.

• SIMILE

• ONOMATOPOEIA

• PERSONIFICATION

• HYPERBOLE

A non-human, inanimate object, idea or animal is given human characteristics.

• PERSONIFICATION

• ONOMATOPOEIA

• SIMILE

• HYPERBOLE

The stars winked at me as I looked up into the sky.

• ONOMATOPOEIA

• HYPERBOLE

• SIMILE

• PERSONIFICATION

The little duck is like a boat of yellow when it is afloat.

• PERSONIFICATION

• HYPERBOLE

• SIMILE

• ONOMATOPOEIA

What is the meaning of "nonliteral language"?

• means exactly what it says

• a common saying with a meaning different than the word that make it up

• uses similes, metaphors, hyperbole, and personification to describe something often through comparison with something different

• small group of words standing together to form a clause

What is "Figurative language"?

• Language that conveys the writer's attitude toward a subject.

• The organization of a text, such as chronological order.

• Non-literal language that helps a reader understand the meaning in a text.

• The perspective conveyed by an author, narrator, speaker, or character.

Figurative language (4)

What is an idiom?

• A type of punctuation used to separate sentences.

• A word that has the same meaning in many languages.

• A phrase or expression with a figurative meaning that cannot be understood from the meanings of the individual words.

• A grammatical rule that determines sentence structure.

My boyfriend is the greatest most spectacular being in the history of the whole entire world.

• PERSONIFICATION

• HYPERBOLE

• ONOMATOPOEIA

• SIMILE

______ is a comparison between two different things using “like” or “as”

• PERSONIFICATION

• HYPERBOLE

• SIMILE

• ONOMATOPOEIA