writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally
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Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally
*Figurative Language
*Idiom
*EX. It’s raining cats and dogs.
*You are driving me up a wall.
An exaggeration that, taken literally, means something else.
*Imagery
*EX. The sparkling snowflakes floated silently down from the heavens to rest on everything creating a crisp blanket of glistening white.
Descriptive language. Five senses. Create vivid mental pictures.
*Metaphor
*EX. The mother was a lioness protecting her children.
*Jimmy is a pig, his room is very messy.
*.Comparing two things, without using “like” or “as.”
*Simile
*EX. Her eyes twinkle like stars.
*He was as tall as a giraffe.
A comparison between two things using the words “like” or “as”.
*Onomatopoeia
*EX. Buzz
*Ex. Tick Tock
*Ex. Whoosh
*Ex. Boom
*Ex. SplashA word that describes a sound.
*Personification
*EX. The wind whistled. * Ex. The tree danced in
the wind.
Giving human qualities to non-human things
*Hyperbole*EX. It’s taking forever!
*Ex. I called you a million times last night.
Extreme exaggeration.
*Alliteration
*EX. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words.