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What is figurative language? Whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else, you are using figurative language.

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Imagery • Sight • Hearing • Touch • Taste • Smell Language that appeals to the senses. Descriptions of people or objects stated in terms of our senses. • Sight • Hearing • Touch • Taste • Smell

Simile Comparison using like or as My mom was as blind as a bat

Hyperbole An exaggeration My dad had a heart attack when he saw my grade.

COMMON HYPERBOLE: I am so hungry I could eat a horse. I had a ton of chores to do. If I can’t get a Smartphone, I will die. She is as thin as a toothpick. This car goes faster than the speed of light. Our new house cost a bazillion dollars.

Alliteration Betty Blake bought big butter. Two or more words of a word group with the same letter Betty Blake bought big butter.

Metaphor Comparison NOT using like or as She is sunshine, brightening our day

Personification Giving living characteristics to non-living things The printer ate my paper

Oxymoron Contradictory terms are used in conjunction Inside out; cold sweat; alone in the crowd

FOR EXAMPLE Great Depression Jumbo shrimp Cruel to be kind Pain for pleasure Clearly confused Act naturally Beautifully painful Painfully beautiful Deafening silence Pretty ugly

Onomatopoeia The formation of a word, intended as an imitation of a sound Bang! Zip! Meow!