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    Figurative

    Language
    Examples:
    • Simile
    • Metaphor
    • Alliteration
    • Personification
    • Onomatopoeia
    • Hyperbole
    • Idiom
    Similes are sentences that
    compare two unlike objects
    using like or as.
    – The girl’s hair is as yellow as the
    sun.
    – The boy runs like a rabbit.
    "What Happens to a Dream Deferred?" 
    by Langston Hughes

    Does it dry up 


    like a raisin in the sun? 
    Or fester like a sore-- 
    And then run? 
    Does it stink like rotten meat? 
    Or crust and sugar over-- 
    like a syrupy sweet? 

    Maybe it just sags  


    like a heavy load. 

    Or does it explode? 
    Important!
    Using “like” or “as” doesn’t always mean it
    is a simile!

    A comparison must be made.

    Not a Simile: I like pizza.

    Simile: The moon is like a pizza.


    Metaphors are sentences that
    state one thing is another to
    show a likeness between the two
    using the words is, am, are, was,
    and were.

    – That report was


    dynamite!
    – The boy is an egghead.
    Picture Puzzle Piece by Shel Silverstein
    One picture puzzle piece
    Lyin' on the sidewalk,
    One picture puzzle piece
    Soakin' in the rain.
    The Hunt
    It might be a button of blue
    On the coat of the woman       
    Who lived in a shoe. My sister once again 
    It might be a magical bean, is on the prowl
    Or a fold in the red A lioness hunting her prey
    Velvet robe of a queen. Searching for something 
    It might be the one little bite lost long ago 
    Of the apple her stepmother
    I hope it won’t ruin her day.
    Gave to Snow White.
    It might be the veil of a bride Like a detective she snoops
    Or a bottle with some evil genie inside. In dizzying loops
    It might be a small tuft of hair Until she picks up on a clue
    On the big bouncy belly A little white bottle 
    Of Bobo the Bear. she once thought long gone
    It might be a bit of the cloak At last she has located her glu
    Of the Witch of the West
    As she melted to smoke.
    It might be a shadowy trace
    Of a tear that runs down an angel's face.
    Nothing has more possibilities
    Than one old wet picture puzzle piece.
    Alliteration is the repetition
    of the beginning consonant
    sound in a group of words.
    • Tiny Tommy
    • Stan the strong Thompson takes
    surfer saved toy trucks to
    several swimmers Tina’s on Tuesday.
    on Saturday.
    Personification is sentences
    that give inanimate objects a
    human characteristic.

    • The friendly gates


    welcomed us.

    • The flowers • The earth


    danced in the choked from all
    wind. of the pollution.
    Hyperobles a statement that
    is exaggerated for effect to
    show strong feeling.
    • His feet are as big
    as a barge.

    • I tried a thousand
    times.
    Onomatopoeia is sound
    words.
    • Vroom
    • Swish
    • Boom
    • Beep
    • Click-clack
    • Tick-tock
    Idioms are sentences that
    cannot be understood by the
    meanings of their separate
    words. (You have to figure out what it
    really means)

    – I’m in hot water with my mom!


    – Are you feeling blue today?
    Can you name each
    type of figurative
    language?
    The Christmas tree was a jewel in
    the forest.

    metaphor
    I am so mad I could spit
    fire.
    hyperbole
    Grandpa was sleeping as soundly as
    a bear in hibernation.
    simile
    The boy can swim like a fish.
    simile
    The lady was a singing
    bird.
    metaphor
    The old lady was moving like a
    snail.
    simile
    Steve was a leaping frog
    as he jumped the brook.
    metaphor
    You crack me up!
    idiom
    I’m in the doghouse!
    idiom

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