Figurative Language
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: The stars danced in the night.
What is personification?
Identify the figurative language: She said, "I'll be the Juliet to your Romeo"
Allusion
Define imagery.
Imagery is...
An indirect reference to a character, event, person, place, story, etc.
Allusion
Name the figurative language: When Rebecca saw her high math quiz score, she was so happy that she did the Moonwalk.
Allusion
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
True or false: We can enhance our writing by adding figurative language.
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
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
What is a simile?
List as many types of figurative language as you can!!!
They are....
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Name the figurative language: She was dying of laughter.
Hyperbole.
Identify the figurative language: I could sleep forever!
Hyperbole
Why do we use figurative language in our writing?
What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
Hyperbole
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the figurative language: "I'm feeling under the weather."
What an idiom?
What is the difference between LITERAL language and FIGURATIVE language.
You may give an an example to support your answer.