By Ashley Woodmender

 What are the different types of figurative language?  tive-language.html tive-language.html

 Simile  Metaphor  Theme  Symbolism  Personification  Foreshowing  Alliteration  Mood  Imagery

a form of comparison in which one thing is compared to another unlike thing by using specific words of comparison such as like, as, and resembles. Poets try to find unusual metaphors and similes.

comparison that directly compares two unlike things "My baby sister's a doll," Or "My brother is a rat."

One of the most familiar kinds of comparison speaking of something that is not human as if it had human abilities and human reactions.

repetition of a single letter in the alphabet

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze

Theme: Nature' s beauty uplifts the human spirit. Mood: Loneliness

I wandered lonely as a cloud Simile Uses like or as

That floats on high o'er vales and hills, Alliteration The hi

When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Metaphor Compares a crowd to a field of daffodils

Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze Personification Tree dancing

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