What is figurative Language?

Figurative Language uses vivid images to make ideas seem new and interesting.

Figurative Language

• Personification 
• Hyperbole
• Simile

Personification means using human qualities or actions to describe an object or an animal.

Perfect examples of personification.

Hyperboble:
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

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Hyperbole

• I'm so hungry I could eat a horse
• It was so cold the polar bears were wearing jackets
• I have so many books I could open my own library
• The Takis were so hot, I started to breath out fire. 

Simile:
A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by "like" or "as"

Simile

• He was as mean as the grinch.
• She was as hungry as a hippo.
• The dog was as smelly as dirty socks
• Ms. Barela is cooler than a polar bears toenails 
• He is as sweet as pie.

Metaphor

Metaphor

• They say that something IS something.
• Unlike Simile, they don't use "like" or "as"

Metaphor

• She IS a walking dictionary.
• He IS a chicken.
• My bestie IS my diary.

Idiom

Idiom

• An idiom is a commonly used expression whose meaning does not relate to the literal meaning of its words.

What do these mean?

• He's pushing up daisies.
• She has a bun in the oven.
• I feel like a fish out of water.
• He let the cat out of the bag.
• Don't catch your chickens before they hatch.

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