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Mastering Figurative Language in Texts

Explore the beauty and power of figurative language with examples of simile, metaphor, personification, and more. Enhance your writing and comprehension skills through vivid imagery and expressive techniques.

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Mastering Figurative Language in Texts

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  1. Figurative Language

  2. Figurative language: • Assonance- repetition of vowel sounds • All who could should gather wood. • At night I like to smoke a pipe. • Alliteration- the same sound starts a series of words • The cold, clammy hands grasped my neck. • The bloody watchman told a tale of trouble and torture. • Hyperbole- a great exaggeration • I have a million things to do today. • I’m so hungry I could eat a horse. • Oxymoron- a combination of contradictory words • jumbo shrimp • pretty ugly

  3. Allusion- a reference to a famous person or event in life or literature • Was the ticking package, wrapped with ribbon and bright paper, a Trojan gift? • Casual and confident, the West High team started the game that was to prove their Waterloo. • Analogy- a longer, more detailed comparison of two ideas or situations. • Some people live their lives like a sheet of scrapped paper blown along a windy street; they are carried this way and that with no apparent effort or ability to control their direction. • Onomatopoeia- the sound of the words imitates the original sound • The burning wood crackled and hissed. • The bee buzzed by much too near my head. • Irony- saying one thing but meaning the opposite • Watching it rain, he said, “Lovely day for a picnic.” • The smashed hulk of metal, twisted and shaped into an awkward unlikely angles, lay on its side; one rear wheel spun slowly Ruefully, the man said to his wife, “I’ll bet I finally got rid of that squeak in the dashboard.”

  4. Simile- a comparison in which one thing is said to be like or as another. • My love is like a red, red rose. • The soldiers swept forward like a swarm of locusts. • Metaphor- a comparison in which one thing is said to be another without the use of like or as. • His fear was a prison, stronger than any more visible barricade. • The cat’s eyes were jewels, gleaming out of the darkness. • Personification- giving human attributes to things, inanimate objects. • Time stood still. • The house on the hill waited patiently for the master to return. • Understatement- stating an idea in words less strong than expected. • a. Now, your date is not really a raving beauty.

  5. THE END!!! :o)

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