FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

SIMILE

• A figure of speech that compares
• Two unlike items using "like or as"
• As pretty as a flower

METAPHOR

• A figure of speech that compares two
• Unlike items
• My sister is a fish when she gets in the pool

PERSONIFICATION

• A figure of speech that describes a
• Non human object by giving it human like qualities
• The trees danced in the wind

IDIOM

• A common expression that means something
• Different than what it's words say
• Raining cats and dogs

HYPERBOLE

• Figure of speech that uses extreme exaggeration
• Something that is not supposed to be taken literally
• It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets

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