Figurative Language

Simile

• A direct comparison between two unlike things using the words like or as
• The boy was as fast as a cheetah. 

Metaphor

• A way of describing something by comparing it to something else without   
• like or as
• When the boy was track racing he was a turtle.  

Personification

• To give human characteristics to something that is not human.
• The tornado was throwing things away.

Alliteration

• repetition of the first consonant sound at the beginning of the words
• Sally sold sea shells by the sea shore. 

Onomatopoeia

• When a word's pronunciation imitates its sound. 
• Bang, Click,Woof

Hyperbole

• A exaggerated statement used to heighten effect it is not used to mislead 
• the reader
• I am so hungry i can eat a cow.