Figurative Language Definitions
Uses like or as to make a comparison between two things
Simile
As quiet as a mouse
Simile
Stanza
To wish someone goodluck, you may use this phrase telling them to break something.
Break a leg
the use of objects, characters, colors, or other things to represent abstract ideas or concepts.
For example: a dove = peace
Symbolism
Repeats letter sounds in a series of words
Alliteration
Boom! Hiss! Whoosh!
Onamatopoeia
Rhyme scheme
To say how easy somehting was, you might describe it as a piece of this delicious desert.
Piece of cake
Guess the figurative language
"I have a mountain of homework to do when I get home."
Hyperbole
Gives something that is not human, human characteristics
Personification
The wind whispered in my ears
Personification
Guess the rhyme scheme:
A boat beneath the summer sky
In the evening of July,
Winked at me as it passed on by.
A A A
When you're not speaking directly about something you are beating around this shrubbery.
Beat around the bush
A situation in literature in which something opposite of what you'd expect to happen, happens.
Situational Irony
Extreme exaggeration
Hyperbole
Lillie Langford liked listening to lemurs
Alliteration
A type of literary writing that paints an image in the readers head by appealing to their senses
Imagery
When you initiate a conversation. It is also what a large polar bear might do to a frozen lake.
Break the ice
Similar to sarcasm. Your words mean the opposite of what you say.
Verbal Irony
A phrase whose meaning cannot be understood from the ordinary meanings of its words.
Idiom
The whole world is a stage, and all the men and women are merely players.
Metaphor
Guess the rhyme scheme:
Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree.
AABB
Crying over this dairy product means to be upset about something that can't be undone.
Crying over spilled milk
When the readers know something that the characters in the story do not.
Dramatic Irony