figurative language2
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Defining typical figurative language terms: alliteration, onomatopoeia, metaphor, simile, personificationTRANSCRIPT
- 1.Timmy tries to train his tongue
figuratively speaking
2. Personification
Metaphors
Similes
Alliteration
Figurative Language
Imagery
Hyperbole
Idioms
Onomatopoeia
3. A figure of speech which gives the qualities of a person to an
animal, an object, or an idea.
Personification
4. Personification
The ocean licked its salty lips as it swallowed the sinking
ship.
5. Hyperbole
An exaggerated statement used to heighten effect.
6. Hyperbole
Timmy has
a ton of homework.
7. Metaphor
A figure of speech which involves an implied comparison between two
relatively unlike things using a form of be.
8. Metaphor
You are daddys little ray of sunshine.
9. 10. an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the
usual meanings of its constituent elements
Idiom
11. Idiom
Timmy was burning the midnight oil preparing for his final
exam.
12. Alliteration
Repeated consonant sounds occurring at the beginning of words or
within words
13. Alliteration
Tiny Tims tiptoeing through the tulips.
14. Simile
A figure of speech which involves a direct comparison between two
unlike things, usually with the words like or as.
15. Simile
Tims as strong as an ox.
16. Onomatopoeia
What do you hear?
17. Onomatopoeia
Chime
Whoosh
Clap
18. Timmys tongue is now
as sharp as a whip.
Whoop, Whoop! Way to go, Timmy!