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Predictable Poor as a church mouse.  strong as an ox,  cute as a button,  smart as a fox.

Predictable Poor as a church mouse.  strong as an ox,  cute as a button,  smart as a fox. thin as a toothpick,  white as a ghost,  fit as a fiddle,  dumb as a post. bald as an eagle,  neat as a pin,  proud as a peacock,  ugly as sin.

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Predictable Poor as a church mouse.  strong as an ox,  cute as a button,  smart as a fox.

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  1. Predictable Poor as a church mouse. strong as an ox, cute as a button, smart as a fox. thin as a toothpick, white as a ghost, fit as a fiddle, dumb as a post. bald as an eagle, neat as a pin, proud as a peacock, ugly as sin. When people are talking you know what they'll say as soon as they start to use a cliché.

  2. Figurative Language • Simile: A comparison using like or as. “ Her eyes are like stars.” • Metaphor: A comparison between two unlike things without using the words like or as. “ The spy shadowed the woman.” • Onomatopoeia: A word that imitates a noise or sound. “ The fly buzzed past.” “ The snake hissed in anger.”

  3. Personification: Giving the attributes of a person to an inanimate object. “ The wind sang her a sorrowful song.” “ The snow whispered while it fell to the ground.” Hyperbole: An extreme exaggeration. “ I nearly died laughing.” “ I tried a thousand times.” Alliteration: The repetition of initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables. “ She sells seashells by the seashore.” Idiom: An expression that has a meaning apart from the meanings of its individual words. “I lost my head.” “ Don’t fly off the handle.”

  4. Choose one of the figures of speech • Onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, or idiom • Write a sentences about spring using one or more of the figures of speech. • Then draw a picture explaining your sentences. • Work with one other partner. Place your sentences on the umbrella paper to display. • http://www.mpsomaha.org/rms/figures_of_speech.htm • http://www.missspott.com/figurativelanguage.html

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