Figurative Language

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simile
hyperbole
Figurative Language
personification
Imagery
Idioms
symbolism
metaphor
Alliteration
onomatopoeia
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Imagery

• Words that create an image in the readers mind
  that allow us to see what is not directly stated
  in the text. It is writing that shows instead of
  tells!
• The watermelon dripped sweet, cold, sticky juice
  down my chin.
• His heart pounded like a snare drum.

The figurative language types that follow are all
examples of imagery.
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Simile a way of describing something by
comparing it with something else using "like"
or "as"
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I am as hungry as a horse.
You run like a rabbit.
She is happy as a clam.
He is sneaky as a snake.
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Metaphor
A way of describing something by comparing it
to something else
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The girl was a fish in the water.
My love is a red, red rose.
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Personification to give human characteristics
to something nonhuman
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The flowers danced in the wind.
The friendly gates welcomed us.
The Earth coughed and choked in all of the
pollution.
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Alliteration Repetition of the first consonant
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Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout would not take the
garbage out -Shel Silverstein
Careless cars cutting corners create confusion
.Crossing centrelines.Countless collisions cost
coffins. -Paul McCann
"You'll never put a better bit of butter on your
knife."-(advertising slogan for Country Life
butter)
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Onomatopoeia Words that are sounds
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Chugga chugga chugga!!
Hiiii-Yahh!
Buzz Buzz Buzz
Bleep Bloop Blorp!
Glippp Gluppp Gluppp
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Hyperbole
An obvious and intentional exaggeration
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I died laughing.
I have been waiting forever.
I was so full I could burst!
I have a ton of homework!!!
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Idioms are words or phrases that are part of
popular speech that do not mean what they say.
They are not literal.
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• Jeff was always putting his two cents in.

A picture paints a thousand words.
Someone stole her boyfriend and now she has a
chip on her shoulder.
My new skinny jeans cost an arm and a leg.
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Symbolism

• Something that is used to represent an idea,
  feeling, or object. What ideas or beliefs do the
  following symbols represent.???

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What do these symbols have in common?