Figurative Language By: Jordyn Hires

Simile Comparing to different things using like or as (or than). She looks like a toad.

Metaphor Comparing 2 different things without using like or as (or than). She is a bright star.

Hyperbole Over exaggerating to prove a point. I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

Understatement Expression that is under exaggerated, not having strong felling. I’ll be done in a minute.

Personification Having a human trait to a objects, ideas, or sounds. When I bit the cookie it said ow!

Onomatopoeia Sound words, words that have a sound. My dogs bark all the time.

A lliteration Three or more words that begin with the same sound or letter. Buzzing bumble bees blew by me.

Idiom Expressions that don’t mean literally what they say. You’re in a tough pickle my friend.

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