Figurative Language
By Taylor Loftis

Simile

• A simile is when two things are compared using like or as.
• crazy like penut butter.

Metaphor

• A metaphor is a compression in which one thing is said to be another. 
• Your friend John is a big baby.

Idiom

• A Idiom is a phrases which do not make sense literally.
• That poor guy is all washed up.

hyperbole

• hyperbole is an exaggerated statement.
• He cried so hard he made a lake.

personification

• personification means giving human objects that are not human.
• The choclate ice crweam cone is really tempting me.

Onomatopoeia

• An Onomatopoeia is a word that imitates  the sound that represents . 
•  Slurp

Alliteration

• An Alliteration is two or more words that start with the same letter