FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

ALLITERATION

• Is reapeated sounds at the beginning of words.
• Example: How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if it could chuck wood

ALLUSION

• Reference to a well-known person, place, figure, or event.
• Ex: Stephen Vincent Bennet story "By The Waters Of Babylon"
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ONOMATOPOEIA

• A word that sounds like the sound it makes
• Ex: BOOM goes the dynamite!

SIMILE

• A comparison of two things using like or as.
• Ex: Your as nasty as a pig.

PERSONIFICATION

• When an object is given human qualities
• Ex: The bed was breathing heavily

IMAGERY

• Language that appears to the five senses.
• Ex: I could small the delicious fish running theough my nose

HYPERBOLE

• Extreme eggeration
• Ex: He was so hungry he could eat an elephant.

METAPHOR

• Comaprison of two things without using like or as
• Ex: The boys was bigger than his dad.

IDIOM

• Words that are established with a meaning
• Ex: Its raining cats and dogs