Figurative Language or Literal

She cried a river.

• Figurative Language

• Literal meaning

Time is gold.

• Figurative Language

• Literal meaning

They are busy as bees.

• Figurative Language

• Literal meaning

The sky is full of dancing stars.

• Figurative Language

• Literal meaning

Definition:  

when an author uses words or phrases in ways that may not be literal and makes the text interesting

• Figurative Language

• Literal Language

• Irony

• Hyberbole

Definition: a comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• irony

Definition: a comparison of two unlike things by saying that one thing IS another dissimilar object or thing

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• simile

• assonance

Definition:  

an exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

• allusion

• idiom

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Definition: giving human qualities to nonhuman things

• imagery

• irony

• personification

• hyperbole

Definition: an expression that means something totally different than the the literal interpretation of its words would suggest

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• irony