FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Idioms
• Alliteration

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Hyperbole
• Oxymoron
• Onomatopoeia

Simile
Using the words "like" or "as" to compare two nouns that are not alike

Example
I'm as fast as a cheetah.

My simile
Julia is as nice as a bunny.

Simile
Julia is as smart as a dolphin.

Simile
Julia is as tall as a tree.

Metaphor
Comparing two nouns that are not alike.

Metaphor Example it's raining cats and dogs.

My metaphor
My teacher is a dragon.

My metaphor
Their home is like a prison.

My metaphor
The classroom was a zoo.

My metaphor
My teacher is like a flower.

Personification
Describing human qualities in something that is not a person.

Personification example
My computer died.

Lighting danced across the sky.

The book was so popular, it flew of the shelves.

My alarm clock yells at me every morning.

The wind howled in the night.

Idioms
...are sayings that have hidden meanings,
...expressions that don't mean exactly what the words say.

Idiom Example
He is driving me up the wall.

My Idiom
She has a heart of gold.

She jumped down my throat.

Don't cry over spilled milk.

Alliteration
Putting together two or more words that begin with the same sound.

Example
Sally sells seashells by the seashore.

Mine
Julia juggles Jello In Japan In July.

Julia Johnson jams in a gigantic city and had a jolly time.

Harry had a hairy hare.

Hyperbole
An exaggeration that is not meant to be taken seriously.

Example
We had to wait forever.

Mine
I've told you a million times.

I'm so thirsty I could die.

I was eaten alive.

Oxymoron
N is a combination of contradictory words.

Jumbo shrimp

Mine
Pretty ugly

Onomatopoeia
When a word sounds like the sound it is describing.

Example
Bang goes the cap gun.

Mine
Whoosh... The runner goes pass me.