Example
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
The stars danced in the night.
What is personification?
involves two or more words that appear close together and have the same initial.
Alliteration
it's raining cats and dogs.
idiom
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
a figure of speech that describes something by saying it's something else.
What is a metaphor?
My feet are killing me
hyperbole
He is a real Einstein
allusion
He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?