Examples of Figurative Language
Simile?
As cold as ice.
Exposition
A comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.
Description
A spoken or written representation or account of a person, object or event.
Phrase
A small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit, typically forming a component of a clause.
A. C. E. Method
Answer the question, cite evidence, explain the answer.
Hyperbole
I was dying of laughter.
Rising Action
The section of a story that leads toward its climax.
Cause and effect
A system of logical reasoning where evidence and proof are presented to show how an event took place or how something happened.
Clause
A unit of grammatical organization next below the sentence in rank and in traditional grammar said to consist of a subject and predicate.
Different POVs
Point of view
Personification
I felt like the food was calling me.
Climax
The most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex.
Compare and contrast
Comparing is showing the similarities, and contrasting is showing differences between two things that are related in some way.
Simple Sentence
A sentence consisting of only one clause, with a single subject and predicate.
Conflict
A disagreement or argument.
Onomatopeia
Crash.
Falling Action
The period of time in a story that follows the climax and leads to the resolution.
Chronology/Sequence
The arrangement of events or dates in the order of their occurrence.
Compound Sentence
A sentence that has a least two independent clauses joined by a comma, semicolon or conjunction.
Modifier
A person or thing that makes partial or minor changes to something.
Metaphor
Heart of gold.
Conclusion
The end of finish of an event or process.
Problem and solution
A format of writing that involves setting up the structure of written text to show different problems and then how the problem is solved.
Complex Sentence
A complex sentence is made up of a main clause and a subordinate clause connected to each other with a subordinating conjunction.
Main Idea
The central point or topic that a text or a paragraph conveys.