Figurative Language

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1-simile
2-hyperbole
Figurative Language
3-personification
4-allusion
5-Imagery
7-Idioms
6-symbolism
8-metaphor
9-Alliteration
10-onomatopoeia
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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
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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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Theres always something left to love. If you
aint learned that, you aint learned nothing.
- Lorraine Hansberry
Touch each object you want to touch as if
tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. -Helen
Keller
The deep churn something had happened down in
the dim, foggy, green depths. Paul Annixter
Better brave than bored.
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Onomatopoeia Words that are sounds
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Yeeeeee Ahhhhhhhh
Swish swish swish
Chug chug chug!!
Glippp Gluppp Gluppp
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Hyperbole
An obvious and intentional exageration
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I died laughing.
I have been waiting forever.
I tried a thousand times.
The car was so fast, it tore up the asphalt.
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Idioms A word or phrase that means something
different from what it says. It is usually a
metaphor.
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• Losing my job was a blessing in disguise.

A picture paints a thousand words.
He did not win the election and now he has a chip
on her shoulder.
My college tuition costs an arm and a leg.
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Symbolism

• Something that is used to represent an idea,
  feeling, or object.
• Light bulb idea
• Red roses love
• Wedding band commitment

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Imagery

• A description that appeals to one or more of the
  readers senses.
• The watermelon dripped sweet, cold, sticky juice
  down my chin.

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Allusion

• Making reference to a person, place, event or
  piece of literature