Figurative language
compares two different things with the use of like or as
Example of alliteration
Examples will vary
Name the figurative language used in this statement:
You want a pizza me?
Pun
Name the figurative language:
She is as beautiful as a red rose
simile
Pop! Boom! Pow!
Onomatopoeia
Definition for metaphor
compares two different things without using like or as.
Name the figurative language:
Cross your fingers!
Idiom/cliché
Definition for allusion
A reference made to something that is not directly mentioned.
Name the figurative language:
Your brain is a weapon to your heart.
Metaphor
Name the figurative language:
She's like a kid in a candy store!
Cliché
hyperbole
Definition for imagery
language that suggests how someone or something looks, sounds, feels, smells, or tastes
A combination of words that have opposite meanings
Oxymoron
Name the figurative language:
This is the shortest person in the world!
hyperbole
Name the figurative language:
I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. It's impossible to put down!
Pun
The attribution of human characteristics to something nonhuman
personification.
What can the color red symbolize?
Love, anger, passion.
A comparison between two unlike things that continues through a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.
Extended metaphor
Name the figurative language:
The sky looks angry.
Personification.
Name the figurative language:
We could be opening up Pandora's Box by talking about Donald Trump.
Allusion
Boom! Clap! Zing!
Onomatopoeia
An overused idiom.
Cliché
The use of words that begin with the same sound near one another
Alliteration
Name the figurative language:
A deafening silence filled the room.
Oxymoron
Name the figurative language:
The car coughed its last breath and died on the side of the road. :(
Personification