Figurative Language Flipchart

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Figurative Language Flipchart
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Simile

• A comparison of 2 things using like or as
• Give your own example
• I am as sleepy as a cat.
• Illustrate your example

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Metaphor

• A comparison not using like or as
• Give your own example
• I am a peaceful dove.
• Illustrate your example

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Personification

• Giving human traits to something not human
• The sun smiled all day long.
• Give your own example
• Illustrate your example

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Alliteration

• The repeating of consonant sounds at the
  beginning of words
• Give your own example
• Sally sells sea shells.
• Illustrate your example

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Hyperbole

• An exaggerated statement
• Give your own example and illustrate it
• I was so thirsty I drank a river.

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Imagery

• Sensory words (sight, taste, touch, hear, smell)
• Give your own example and illustrate
• The gray,furry kitten licked my hand.

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Repetition

• Repeated words, phrases, or sentences for
  emphasis
• Give your example and illustrate
• The eagle soared, soared into the blue clouds.

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Onomatopoeia

• Sound words
• Give an example and illustrate
• Ding, dong clanged the brass bell.

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Oxymoron

• Combining contrasting words or ideas
• Give your own example
• Ex The burning cold ice-cream stung my tongue.

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Idiom

• An expression whose whole meaning is different
  from the literal meaning of the original words.

• Give your own example
• Ex That math problem
• was way over her head.