simile metaphor personification

Figurative Language

Imagery

Simile Metaphor

Personification

Aural imagery• Alliteration• Assonance

• Onomatopoeia

Symbol

Imagery

Simile Metaphor

Personification

Aural imagery• Alliteration• Assonance

• Onomatopoeia

Symbol

Simile – comparison using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’

SimilesAs black as...As light as a... As clean as a...As quick as a... As hungry as a...As proud as a...As sharp as a...As heavy as...Like a bull in a..

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Be creative in yourchoice of

comparison

Being stood up is like being the last fruit on the tree, Left to wither through the winter

Feeling angry is like carrying a volcano in the pit of your stomach that threatens to erupt at any moment

The leaves fell from the tree like a thousand paratroopersLeaping into battle behind enemy lines

The class was as boring as counting the perforations in a bag of PG tips!

Your Turn

As black as...As light as a... As clean as a...As hungry as a...As proud as a...As heavy as...

A Simile poemBy

Stanley Cook

Like the white curls from a gigantic beardDrifting across the barber’s shop floor

In the breeze from the open door;Like the broken parts of the ice floe

Afloat on the blue of the ocean,Drifting southward from the Pole;Like a heavily laden treasure fleet

In a light wind on the calm sea,Hardly moving with all sails set;

Like suds of foam from the waterfallThat lathers the rocks at its foot,

Gliding over a tranquil pool;Like wool from a fleece,Like smoke from a fire,Like islands in the sky.

Your Turn

Like the white curls from a gigantic beardDrifting across the barber’s shop floor

In the breeze from the open door;Like the broken parts of the ice floe

Afloat on the blue of the ocean,Drifting southward from the Pole;Like a heavily laden treasure fleet

In a light wind on the calm sea,Hardly moving with all sails set;

Like suds of foam from the waterfallThat lathers the rocks at its foot,

Gliding over a tranquil pool;Like wool from a fleece,Like smoke from a fire,Like islands in the sky.

Name the Title - D.H. Lawrence

Like a glove, a black glove thrown up at the light, And falling back

Wings like bits of umbrella

Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags And grinning in their sleep

Swallows with spools of dark thread sewing the shadows together

Imagery

Simile Metaphor

Personification

Aural imagery• Alliteration• Assonance

• Onomatopoeia

Symbol

Metaphor – direct comparison without using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’

What season are you?

What animal are you ?

Musical instrument?

Piece of Furniture?

Who am I?An owl staring into the darkness,A star fruit, bursting with juice.

A dramatic orchestral movementAnd the sky just after a storm.

A swirling black cloakAnd a whispered secret.

How is a wave like a mountain?

Hokusai – ‘The Wave’

How is a skater like the earth in its

orbit?

Ted Hughes

With arms swinging, a tremendous skaterOn the flimsy ice of space,The earth leans into its curve -

Norman Nicholson

And chiselled clear on stoneA spider-web of shell,The thumb print of the sea.

May Swenson

On silent hingesOpen-folds her wingsApplauding hands.

Phoebe Hesketh

Giraffe-tall, gormless somehow,Heads hangingOver the next garden.

Gareth Owen

BoredomIsCloudsBlack as old slateChucking rain straightOn our Housing EstateAll greyDay long.

Craig Raine

There are menOn the roof of the churchPlaying patience,

Tile after tile,

Your TurnUse a metaphor to describe one of the following as a phrase or line:

•London Underground•An electricity pylon•A rhinoceros•A hive of bees•Fog

Lord Alfred Tennyson

The Eagle

HE clasps the crag with crooked hands;Close to the sun in lonely lands,Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;He watches from his mountain walls,And like a thunderbolt he falls.

HE clasps the crag with crooked hands;Close to the sun in lonely lands,Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;He watches from his mountain walls,And like a thunderbolt he falls.

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Imagery

Simile Metaphor

Personification

Aural imagery• Alliteration• Assonance

• Onomatopoeia

Symbol

Personification – giving human qualities to objects & animals

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

The angry clouds marched across the sky.

The lonely train whistle cried out in the night.

The hungry chainsaw growled loudly.

The stubborn dense fog swallowed us.

The evening stars winked at me from the sky.

Which is the grumpiest?

Who is in charge?

Which is the wisest?

He who owns the whistle, rules the worldBy Roger McGough

January wind and the sunPlaying truant again.Rain beginning to scratchIts fingernails acrossThe blackboard sky

In the playgroundKids divebomb, cornerAt Silverstone or execute Traitors. ArmedWith my Acme ThundererI step outside,Take a deep breathAnd bring the worldTo a standstill.

The MoonBy Percy Shelley

AND, like a dying lady lean and pale, Who totters forth, wrapp'd in a gauzy veil, Out of her chamber, led by the insane And feeble wanderings of her fading brain, The moon arose up in the murky east, A white and shapeless mass.

Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth, And ever changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy?

The story of a 10 pence piece

Life according to a mirror

Your TurnUse personification to bring one of the following to life:

•A dentist’s chair•An ATM machine•An airport metal detector•A vending machine•A defibrillator