FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Figurative Language

Figura+ive language is when you describe some+hing by comparing if wi+h something else. Types of figura+ive language include alliteration, hyperbole, idiom, cliché, metaphor, simile, onoma+opoeia, personifica+ion and assonance.

What is

Figurative Language?

Figurative language is language that uses words or expressions that are different than the literal meanings.

Figurative language helps the reader get a clearer picture of what is happening in the story.

Figurative language can be used to simply entertain the reader.

Figurative language "spices up" your reading and writing!

Why is Figurative Language So Important ?

Tool

reader's mind

• It makes the writing More Interesting

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Similes compare one thing to another using the words 'like' or 'as'.

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As cold as

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The classroom was buzzing like a beehive.

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As sly as a fox.

Time is as valuable as money.

Metaphors compare one thing to another without using 'like' or 'as'.

Metaphors

My teacher is a dragon.

She is a shining

star.

Metaphors

You are my sunshine.

Onomatopoeia

Onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the natural sounds of a thing.

The do will

when I walk Past.

Onomatopoeia

The race car driver revved his engine.

I love the sound of sizzling bacon.

Personification is when a thing, idea or animal is given human attributes.

Lightning danced across the sky.

My alarm clock yells

at me every morning.

The birds

sung with joy.

Alliteration is when a number of words have the same first consonant sound.

Alliteration

The lion licked his lip.

Alliteration

Those horses have heavy hooves.

Alliteration

The red roses were wrapped in ribbon.

The sly slithering snake snuck into the shed.

An idiom is a common phrase or term that is different from its literal meaning,

 raining cats and dogs!

 on the right track.

Let's call it a day.

Her smile was a mile wide.

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Hyperbole is an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis.

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I^tve asked you to clean your room a thousand times!

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1m so hungry  could eat horse!

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Her beauty blinded my eyes.

hyperbole

I was feeling sick as a dog.

An oxymoron is created when two opposite ideas are joined together for effect.

I have been busy doing nothing.

You have to be cruel to be kind.

The room was filled with a deafening silence.