CLIFTON’S FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE POWERPOINT

Clifton Dailey September 19,2011

Simile

Using like or as to compare 2 things.

Ex: That man is as old as dirt.

Ex :She is as proud as a peacock.

Metaphor

Comparing 2 things without using like or as.

Ex She is a Gorrilla in the morning.

Ex He is a cheetah when he is running.

Hyperbole

Using exaggeration to make a point.

His teeth were blinding white.

My car is a million years old.

onomatopoeia

Sound word .

The bird went chirp.

The ghost went boo.

Alliteration

Repetition of beginning sound

Ex :Long legged Lucy lost my lunch.

Personification Giving human qualities to something

that is not human.

Ex: The vines yelled at me when I stepped on them.

Idiom

A well known expression that does not mean what it says

Ex: Go fly a kite.

Practice problems

1. The chair screamed when he sat in it. 2.The car went boom. 3. The house is as messy as a junk yard. 4. His head is as big as a watermelon. 5. The lightening danced across the field. 6. Before I went on stage, he told me to

break a leg. 7. Her hair is a dirty mop in the morning.