Figurative Language Basics
A Comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
What is a simile?
Words that help the reader visualize what is happening.
What is imagery/sensory details?
All's well that ends well.
What is consonnance?
Giving human qualities to something non-human.
What is personification?
The bacon sizzled and popped in the pan.
What is onomatopoeia?
Boom! The fireworks explode in the sky.
What is onomatopoeia?
The opposite of what you would expect to happen.
What is irony?
A direct comparison that does not use like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Time is a thief.
What is a metphor?
I think I drank too much milk.
What is consonance?
The room was so silent, you could hear a pin drop.
What is hyperbole?
Putting opposite ideas together to make a point.
What is an oxymoron?
The "Boy Who Cried Wolf" teaches kids to be honest.
What is an allegory?
"It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom."
What is Anaphora?
Deafening silence.
Repeating the same word or phrase at the beginning of several successive sentences.
What is anaphora?
She is so selfish- a real Scrooge.
What is allusion?
My kite takes flight with might.
What is assonance?
The enchanted rose seen in the movie Beauty and the Beast.
What is symbolism?