1. Figurative Language

2. Figurative language: Assonance- repetition of vowel sounds
All who could should gather wood.
At night I like to smoke a pipe.
Alliteration- the same sound starts a series of words
The cold, clammy hands grasped my neck.
The bloody watchman told a tale of trouble and torture.
Hyperbole- a great exaggeration
I have a million things to do today.
I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.
Oxymoron- a combination of contradictory words
jumbo shrimp
pretty ugly

3. Allusion- a reference to a famous person or event in life or literature
Was the ticking package, wrapped with ribbon and bright paper, a Trojan gift?
Casual and confident, the West High team started the game that was to prove their Waterloo.
Analogy- a longer, more detailed comparison of two ideas or situations.
Some people live their lives like a sheet of scrapped paper blown along a windy street; they are carried this way and that with no apparent effort or ability to control their direction.
Onomatopoeia- the sound of the words imitates the original sound
The burning wood crackled and hissed.
The bee buzzed by much too near my head.
Irony- saying one thing but meaning the opposite
Watching it rain, he said, “Lovely day for a picnic.”
The smashed hulk of metal, twisted and shaped into an awkward unlikely angles, lay on its side; one rear wheel spun slowly Ruefully, the man said to his wife, “I’ll bet I finally got rid of that squeak in the dashboard.”

4. Simile- a comparison in which one thing is said to be like or as another.
My love is like a red, red rose.
The soldiers swept forward like a swarm of locusts.
Metaphor- a comparison in which one thing is said to be another without the use of like or as.
His fear was a prison, stronger than any more visible barricade.
The cat’s eyes were jewels, gleaming out of the darkness.
Personification- giving human attributes to things, inanimate objects.
Time stood still.
The house on the hill waited patiently for the master to return.
Understatement- stating an idea in words less strong than expected.
a. Now, your date is not really a raving beauty.

5. THE END!!!
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