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Figurative Language Exemplars. Simile. A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common. Simile . She is as sly as a fox. Simile. He was as tough as a bull. Simile. Her eyes twinkle like the stars.
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Simile • A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common.
Simile • She is as sly as a fox.
Simile • He was as tough as a bull.
Simile • Her eyes twinkle like the stars.
Simile • He is as smart as an owl.
Simile • She was as busy as a bee.
Simile • He runs like a cheetah.
Metaphor • An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.
Metaphor • Love is a rose.
Metaphor • Life is a journey.
Metaphor • Be careful, it is a jungle out there.
Metaphor • Death is a thief.
Metaphor • Her brain is a sponge.
Metaphor • The lake was a huge mirror in the moonlight.
Personification • A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities.
Personification • The wind whispered through the dark gloomy forest.
Personification • The gardener lovingly added the manure to his crops believing he was making happy flowers.
Personification • As we walked through the scorching desert, the sun beat down on us.
Personification • Time crawled as Tim sat in the hot detention room painfully watching the clock tic.
Personification • The lumberjack leveled the many trees into a clearing and his chainsaw sang its deadly song.
Personification • When Monica walked through the shoe store, each shiny pair of high heels called out to her.
Idiom • An expression that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words.
Idiom • It’s raining cats and dogs.
Idiom • I’m feeling under the weather.
Idiom • It’s not worth spilling milk over.
Idiom • Getting the correct books home to do your homework is half the battle.
Idiom • That test was a piece of cake.
Idiom • The band’s performance brought the house down.
Hyperbole • an obvious and intentional exaggeration
Hyperbole • It was as big as a house.
Hyperbole • Drew runs faster than a speeding bullet.
Hyperbole • Our hallway was about a mile long.
Hyperbole • The smell of our cafeteria’s cinnamon rolls could be smelled in the next county.
Hyperbole • We had about a century’s worth of homework last night.
Hyperbole • Her backpack weighed about a ton.
Alliteration • - is the repetition of an initial consonant sound.
Alliteration • As cunning as a crocodile.
Alliteration • The wind whispered through the willow trees.
Alliteration • Tony the Tiger says ‘They’re Great’!
Alliteration • Good men are gruff and grumpy, cranky, crabbed, and cross.
Alliteration • The soul selects her own society.
Alliteration • Joey felt jumpy and jittery.
Onomatopoeia • - word that sounds like the object it is describing.
Onomatopoeia • Buzz
Onomatopoeia • Bang
Onomatopoeia • Crunch
Onomatopoeia • Pow
Onomatopoeia • Zoom
Onomatopoeia • Wham
