Figurative Language 1
What is simile?
It compares 2 things (objects, people) using like, or as.....as.
What is a metaphor?
Metaphors compare 2 things without like or as.....as.
What is a personification?
Personification gives a human quality to an object.
What figurative language is it?
The trees were dancing in the wind.
Personification
What figurative language is this?
I am dying to go to Japan.
Hyperbole
What figurative language is this?
The engine started. Vroom!Vroom!
Onomatopoeia
What figurative language is this?
My brain is an engine.
Metaphor.
What is alliteration?
The repetition of the same sound at the beginning of words that are next to each other or closely connected.
A big bully beats a baby boy.
What figurative language is this?
Sheep should sleep in a shed.
Alliteration.
What figurative language is this?
She has Mona Lisa's smile.
Allusion
Her heart is an ice-cube.
Metaphor
What is onomatopoeia?
A type of word that sounds like what it describes
Ex: bubble, gargle, crunch, pop, hoot, beep...
What is hyperbole?
An extreme exaggeration that the writer uses for emphasis (stress/importance)
I am dying of laughter.
Fine 4 examples of figurative language here.
I am as tall as a palm tree. I walk like a giraffe. My eyes shoot beams of light when I stare at you. I weight a thousand pounds.
simile
simile
personification
hyperbole
What is allusion?
A reference to a well-known/famous person, place, event, or idea (historical, cultural, political, literary)