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Figurative Language

Figurative Language A tool that an author uses to help readers visualize what is happening in the story.

You can’t take it literally! Figurative Language You can’t take it literally!

Some Types of Figurative Language include . . . Hyperbole: An exaggeration (That building can touch the clouds.)

Some Types of Figurative Language include . . . Idiom: An common expression that cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements, as in kick the bucket or under the weather.

Some Types of Figurative Language include . . . Metaphor: A comparison of two unlike things that suggests a similarity between the two items. (Love is a rose.)

Some Types of Figurative Language include . . . Simile: A comparison using "like" or "as” (She sings like an angel.)

Some Types of Figurative Language include . . . Synecdoche: a part stands for the whole. The “White House” stands for the U.S. government. A “hired hand” is more than a hand.

Some Types of Figurative Language include . . . Personification: imagining an inanimate object or animal acting, feeling, or thinking like a person

Some Types of Figurative Language include . . . Figurative comparison: shows how two things are alike or different, by saying they are as _____as a ____ (or) _____ than a _______ Such comparisons may use hyperbole.