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Figurative Language
Simile
• Comparing two dissimilar things using like or as
• The sun is like a big, orange marble in the sky.
• Helen’s eyes are as blue as the sky.
Change the sentences by adding a simile
• Joe was mad.
• Missy was happy.
• Brett was scared.
Personification
• Giving human traits to something that is not human
• The alarm clocked screamed at me to wake up.
Personify the following
• The wind
• The chair
• The fire
Hyperbole
• An extreme exaggeration
• We ate ice cream cones with scoops a mile high.
• Cindy is so hungry she could eat a whole cow.
Add a hyperbole to the sentences. *Be careful not to make it a simile. • The line was long.
• It was a hot day.
• Pam was thirsty.
Metaphor
• Comparing two dissimilar things by saying one thing is the other.
• Her hair was silk.
• Peter was a raging bull on the basketball court.
Change the sentences by adding a metaphor
• Joe was mad.
• Missy was happy.
• Brett was scared.
Alliteration
• The repeating of the first sound in more than two words in a sentence.
• The wild and wooly walrus waited on the beach.
• Kevin killed the king with his karate moves.
• More alliteration examples
Onomatopoeia
• A word that sounds like what it means
• buzz, hiss, roar, woof, boom, crash
Idiom
• An expression that has meaning but does not mean what it says literally.
• My homework was a piece of cake.
• Tim woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
• Idiom site