Definition
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: The stars danced in the night.
What is personification?
Identify the figurative language: She said, "I'll be the Juliet to your Romeo"
Allusion
Define imagery.
language that uses touch, taste, sound, smell and sight to "paint" a picture for the reader
a mild or indirect work or expression used to replace a harsh or blunt statement
euphemism
An indirect reference to a character, event, person, place, story, etc.
Allusion
Name the figurative language: When Rebecca saw her high math quiz score, she was so happy that she did the Moonwalk.
Allusion/ hyperbole
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
True or false: We can enhance our writing by adding figurative language.
True
a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically used in ordinary or familiar conversation
colloquialism
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah.
Simile
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
What is a simile?
List 5 types of figurative language
simile, metaphor, idiom, hyperbole, personification, repetition, alliteration, allusion, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, pun, euphemism, irony, paradox, anaphora, imagery, apostrophe, synecdoche
the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
anaphora
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Name the figurative language: She was dying of laughter.
Hyperbole.
Identify the figurative language: I could sleep forever!
Hyperbole
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
substitution of a word with a closely related concept
for example instead of referring to businessmen as businessmen you would refer to them as suits
metonymy
What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
Hyperbole
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the figurative language: out of the blue
What an idiom?
What is the difference between LITERAL language and FIGURATIVE language.
Literal language means exactly what is said while figurative language has different meanings than the words that are used.
a description using two opposite ideas to create an effective description
oxymoron