Figurative Language
Types of Figurative Language:
• Simile• Metaphor• Personification• Alliteration• Onomatopoeia
Simile
• An implied comparison usually using “like” or “as”
Simile
• Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get.
Simile
• He ran down the field like a freight train.
Simile
• She was as quiet as a mouse.
Metaphor• The process of
describing one thing as if it were another.
• Does not use
“like” or “as”
Metaphor
• Our project is almost finished. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Metaphor
• He had butterflies in his stomach.
Metaphor
• He carried the weight of the world on his shoulders.
Personification•A figure of speech in which a thing, quality, or idea is represented as a person.
Personification
• The sun peeked over the mountain tops.
Personification
• One lonely slice of pizza remained.
Personification
• After a long day of work, the swimming pool was calling my name.
Alliteration
• The repetition of the same sound at the beginning of two or more closely associated words.
Alliteration
• Like loads of laundry lying on the lovely linoleum.
Alliteration
• Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
Alliteration
• Those creepy crawly critters caused a cramp in my cranium.
Onomatopoeia
• A word that imitates the sound it represents.
Onomatopoeia
• The water gurgled as it flowed down the drain.
Onomatopoeia
• The storm clouds rumbled across the sky.
Onomatopoeia
• It seemed everyone was sniffling during the cold and flu season.
Hyperbole
• An extreme exaggeration such as:
• I am so hungry I could eat a horse!!!!
• We have TONS of homework tonight!!!
Types of Figurative Language
• Simile• Metaphor• Personification• Alliteration• Onomatopoeia• Hyperbole