Figurative Language

Simile

• A direct comparison between two unlike things using the
• words like or as.
• Ex: The racing car is fast like cheetah.

Metaphor

• A way of describing something by compairing
• it to something else implied comparison between
• two unlike things without using like or as.
• Ex: The soccer game was a wild cat.

Personification

• To give humans characteristics to
• something that is not humans.
• Ex: The flying beast welcome us to
• the castle.

Alliteration

• Repetition of the first consonant
• sound at the beginning of a word.
• Ex: Please put your pens away and
• play the piano.

onomatopoeia

• When a word's pronunciation
• imitates its sound.
• Ex: Boom, puff, pow, pop, zap.

Hyporbole

• An exagerated statement used
• to heighten effect. It is not used
• to mislead the reader but to 
• a point.
• Ex: My mom is going to kill me.