FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE Using words in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true. It is used for comparison, emphasis, and emotional.

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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE Using words in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true. It is used for comparison, emphasis, and emotional effect.

idiom An expression that has a meaning different from the meaning of its individual words. EX: He let the cat out of the bag.

hyperbole Words which exaggerate for effect. Ex: I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.

metaphor Unstated comparison of two things that are basically dissimilar but have qualities in common. Ex: My brother’s room is a pig sty.

simile Comparison between two unlike things using like or as. Ex: My brother’s room is like a pig pen.

oxymoron Combining contradictory terms for effect. Ex: Deafening silence Cruel kindness

onomatopoeia Use of words whose sounds echo their meanings, such as buzz, gargle, slurp. Ex: I pulled the strings our of my stalk. Z-Z-zip, Z-Z-Zip. Lensey Namioka

personification Giving human qualities to an animal, object, or idea. Ex: The flowers danced in the wind.