Figurative Language

Figurative Language Kristy Lee October 11,2011 5th Period

Personification • An animal given human-like qualities or an object given life-like qualities. • Example ; • Sun smiling down , or the boat hugged the shore.

Alliteration • Consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words. • Example ; • Sally seems to sit somewhere separate from Sonia.

Assonance • Repeated VOWELS sounds in a line or lines of poem. • Example ; • I baked a cake and ate it.

hyperbole • Exaggeration often used for emphasis. • Example ; • Man that’s like a million times harder!

Onomatopoeia • Words that imitate the sound they are naming. • Example ; • But with a buzz or a ding or a hiss or a roar.

Metaphor • A direct comparison of two unlike things. • Example ; • My mind is an ocean , my words are a river.

Simile • A comparison of two things using like or as. • Example ; • Smooth as jazz

Imagery • Most images are visual but they can also appeal to the senses of sound touch taste or smell. • Example ; Sweet Sorrow

Consonance • Consonant sounds close together • Example ; • I dropped the locket in the thick mud .

idiom • Literal meaning of its individual words. • Example ; • Have the upper hand or under the weather

Figurative Language