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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE. A Tool that an author uses to help the reader visualize what is happening in a story or poem. Simile. Simile is when you compare two nouns (persons, places or things) that are unlike, with "like" or "as.“

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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

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  1. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE A Tool that an author uses to help the reader visualize what is happening in a story or poem

  2. Simile Simile is when you compare two nouns (persons, places or things) that are unlike, with "like" or "as.“ "The water is like the sun" is an example of simile because water and the sun have little in common, and yet they're being compared to one another.

  3. METAPHOR • A metaphor states that one thing is something else. It is a comparison, but it does NOT use like or as to make the comparison. Example: Her hair is silk. The sentence is comparing (or stating) that hair is silk.

  4. Personification • Definition: when you make a thing, idea, or an animal do something only humans can do. • Example"Wind yells while blowing“. Only a living thing can yell

  5. Alliteration • Definition: When two or more words in a poem begin with the same letter or sound. Example: • "Rabbits running over roses" all of the words have the same beginning consonant sound (r).

  6. Repetition • Repetition is when you have a word and use it more than once. • Example • Inside the oceanI see fish.Inside the wavesI hear a splash.Inside the waterI felt a fish.It seems so big,as big as a whale.It has to be,But then I see,It's a tuna fish.

  7. Onomatopoeia • Definition: onomatopoeia are words that sound like the objects they name or the sounds those objects make. • Zip goes the jacket" Zip" is an onomatopoeiaword because it soundslike a jacket iszipping up.

  8. Hyperbole • Hyperbole is the use of gross exaggeration to make a point. • Example: • I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse.

  9. Idiom • A common expression that sometimes is hard to guess from the meaning of individual words • Example: Get a kick out of something ( find something amusing)

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