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