Figurative Language

1. Figurative Language

2. Simile • A comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as • Ex. “It was like coming into the cold marbled room of a mausoleum” (11). • The bedroom where Mildred is sleeping is like a place where dead bodies are stored.

3. Metaphor • A comparison of two unlike things without using the words like or as • Ex. “the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house” (3). • Books are compared to birds.

4. Personification • Giving human traits to non-human things • Ex. “As he stood there the sky over the house screamed” (13). • The sky cannot actually scream because it does not have vocal chords like a human does.

5. Imagery • A detailed sensory description (touch, taste, sight, sound, smell) • Ex. “They walked in the warm-cool blowing night to the silvered pavement and there was the faintest breath of fresh apricots and strawberries in the air” (7).

6. Imagery • A detailed sensory description (touch, taste, sight, sound, smell) • Ex. “They walked in the warm-cool blowing night to the silvered pavement and there was the faintest breath of fresh apricots and strawberries in the air” (7). sight smell touch