Predictable Poor as a church mouse.  strong as an ox,  cute as a button,  smart as a fox. thin as a toothpick,  white as a ghost,  fit as a fiddle,  dumb as a post. bald as an eagle,  neat as a pin,  proud as a peacock,  ugly as sin. When people are talking  you know what they'll say  as soon as they start to  use a cliché.

Figurative Language Simile: A comparison using like or as. “ Her eyes are like stars.” Metaphor: A comparison between two unlike things without using the words like or as. “ The spy shadowed the woman.” Onomatopoeia: A word that imitates a noise or sound. “ The fly buzzed past.” “ The snake hissed in anger.”

Personification: Giving the attributes of a person to an inanimate object. “ The wind sang her a sorrowful song.” “ The snow whispered while it fell to the ground.” Hyperbole: An extreme exaggeration. “ I nearly died laughing.” “ I tried a thousand times.” Alliteration: The repetition of initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables. “ She sells seashells by the seashore.” Idiom: An expression that has a meaning apart from the meanings of its individual words. “I lost my head.” “ Don’t fly off the handle.”

Choose one of the figures of speech Onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, or idiom Write a sentences about spring using one or more of the figures of speech. Then draw a picture explaining your sentences. Work with one other partner. Place your sentences on the umbrella paper to display. http://www.mpsomaha.org/rms/figures_of_speech.htm http://www.missspott.com/figurativelanguage.html