figurative language

Figurative language is the use of words that go beyond their ordinary meanings.  Figurative language requires you to use your imagination to figure out the author's meaning.  The water’s reflection was like the sun on glass.

SIMILE-A figure of speech comparing two different things using the words “like” or “as.” After the football game, the boy was so sore he walked like a toy soldier.

Stars are buttons off the METAPHOR-A figure of speech comparing two different things without using the words “like” or “as.” Stars are buttons off the angels’ gowns.

Onomatopoeia-a word or words that imitate a sound The click, click, click of the computer keys gave Mrs. Jones a headache.

The moonlight walked across the water. Personification-giving human characteristics to things that are not human The moonlight walked across the water.

HYPERBOLE-figurative language where exaggeration is used for emphasis Our teacher is so old she probably taught cavemen how to make a wheel.

Alliteration-figurative language using the repetition of consonant sounds Cop Curt wrote Wanda the Witch a speeding ticket. She was flying and flipping over the fifty-five mile an hour limit.

Allusion - a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone I'll be waiting all there's left to do is run You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess It's a love story baby just say yes

Idioms -are word combinations which have a different meaning than the literal meanings of each word.

Pun - a play on words in with a humorous effect Ex. The best way to communicate with a fish is to drop them a line

Foreshadowing – when the writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” Act 2, Scene 2: “Life were better ended by their hate, Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love”

Oxymoron a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction Ex. Jumbo Shrimp

Imagery language that causes people to imagine pictures in their mind

Irony Dramatic irony refers to a time when one character is ignorant of something that the other characters and the reader understand.   Verbal irony is a contrast between what is said or written and what is really meant.

Bang, clang, and hiss are examples of what type of figurative language?

ONOMATOPOEIA

What type of figurative language is the following sentence? Helga hangs handkerchiefs on the line.

ALLITERATION

What type of figurative language is the following sentence? The boy could swim like a fish.

SIMILE

What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence? John is a mountain on the field.

METAPHOR

Jimmy is so skinny, a skeleton looks fatter than he does! What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence? Jimmy is so skinny, a skeleton looks fatter than he does!

HYPERBOLE

What type of figurative language is the following sentence? The trees danced by the shore.

Personification

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