1. Figurative Language

2. Simile Comparing two dissimilar things using like or as
The sun is like a big, orange marble in the sky.
Helen’s eyes are as blue as the sky.

3. Change the sentences by adding a simile
Joe was mad.
Missy was happy.
Brett was scared.

4. Personification Giving human traits to something that is not human
The alarm clocked screamed at me to wake up.

5. Personify the following
The wind
The chair
The fire

6. Hyperbole An extreme exaggeration
We ate ice cream cones with scoops a mile high.
Cindy is so hungry she could eat a whole cow.

7. Add a hyperbole to the sentences. *Be careful not to make it a simile.
The line was long.
It was a hot day.
Pam was thirsty.

8. Metaphor
Comparing two dissimilar things by saying one thing is the other.
Her hair was silk.
Peter was a raging bull on the basketball court.

9. Change the sentences by adding a metaphor
Joe was mad.
Missy was happy.
Brett was scared.

10. Alliteration
The repeating of the first sound in more than two words in a sentence.
The wild and wooly walrus waited on the beach.
Kevin killed the king with his karate moves.
More alliteration examples

11. Onomatopoeia A word that sounds like what it means
buzz, hiss, roar, woof, boom, crash

12. Idiom
An expression that has meaning but does not mean what it says literally.
My homework was a piece of cake.
Tim woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
Idiom site