Figurative Language
Simile or Metaphor
Simile or Metaphor
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: "The car's engine groaned when I turned the key!"
What is personification?
The sound of a car tire screeching against the road would be an example of what type of figurative language?
Onomatopoeia
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: She was dying of laughter.
Hyperbole.
Identify the figurative language: I could sleep forever!
Hyperbole
It makes a comparison between two unrelated things by stating that one thing is another thing, even though this isn't literally true.
What is metaphor?
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
This type of figurative language is when words mimic sounds!
What is Onomatopoeia
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
True or false: We can enhance our writing by adding figurative language.
True
Repeats vowel sounds in nearby words, giving your writing a smooth, melodic flow.
What is assonance?
Repeats the starting consonant sounds in a series of words.
What is alliteration?
What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
Hyperbole
BOOM! CUCKOO! DING! & BANG! What is the use of these words called in figurative language?
ONOMATOPOEIA
Why do we use figurative language in our writing?
to help the reader better understand what we are trying to describe and make it more entertaining