1. Make your writing colorful
Figures of Speech
Make your writing colorful

2. Figures of Speech
Figures of speech are words or phrases
that are not literal language, that is the words do not mean exactly what they say.
Figures of speech are often used for emphasis, freshness, or clarity.

3. Types of Figures of Speech
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Personification
Idiom
Analogy

4. You are as pretty as a picture.
SIMILE
A simile is the comparison of two
Unlike things using or .
He eats like a pig.
You are as pretty as a picture.
like as

6. “To be” (am, is, are, was, were)
METAPHOR
A metaphor is the comparison of
two unlike things or expressions,
sometimes using the verb “to be,”
and not using like or as (as in a
simile).
“To be” (am, is, are, was, were)

7. From “A Meditation for his Mistress”
METAPHOR
He is a pig.
“You are a tulip.”
From “A Meditation for his Mistress”
~Robert Herrick

8. ALLITERATION Alliteration is the of initial consonant sounds of
neighboring words.
Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
repetition

9. ALLITERATION “She left the Heaven of Heroes and came down
To make a man to meet the mortal need,
A man to match the mountains and the sea,
The friendly welcome of the wayside well.”
From “Lincoln, the Man of the People”
~Edwin Markham

10. ONOMATOPOEIA (on-uh-mat-uh-pee-uh)
An onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the it represents.
The chiming of the bells…
The boom of the explosion…
sound

11. ONOMATOPOEIA “Tinkling sleigh bells Clanging fire bells
Mellow chiming wedding bells
Tolling, moaning, and groaning funeral bells”
From “The Bells”
~Edgar Allan Poe

12. His feet are as big as boats!
HYPERBOLE
A hyperbole is an or an =
His feet are as big as boats!
I nearly died laughing!
exaggeration
overstatement

13. The moon looked down at me.
PERSONIFICATION
Giving human qualities to things that are not human
The moon looked down at me.

14. It’s raining cats and dogs.
IDIOM
A saying that means something different than what it says
It’s raining cats and dogs.

16. A pen is the weapon of a writer.
Analogy
An analogy compares two things based on some way in which they are alike.
A pen is the weapon of a writer.

17. Test Your Knowledge!

18. 1.He clattered and clanged as he washed the dishes.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!
1.He clattered and clanged as he washed the dishes.
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole

19. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE! 2. Life is a beach! (A)Metaphor (B)Alliteration
(C) Simile

20. 3. “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!
3. “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”
~Mother Goose
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Alliteration

21. 4. The river falls under us like a trap door.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!
4. The river falls under us like a trap door.
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Metaphor

22. 5. I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!
5. I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia

23. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE! 6. “Don’t delay dawn’s disarming display.
Dusk demands daylight.”
From “Dewdrops Dancing Down Daises”
~Paul Mc Cann
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Hyperbole

24. 7. I’ve heard that joke a billion times, but it still cracks me up!
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!
7. I’ve heard that joke a billion times, but it still cracks me up!
(A) Simile
(B) Metaphor
(C) Hyperbole

25. 8. The glass vase is as fragile as a child’s sandcastle.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!
8. The glass vase is as fragile as a child’s sandcastle.
Metaphor
Alliteration
Simile

26. 9. The buzzing bee startled me!
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!
9. The buzzing bee startled me!
Hypberbole
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor

27. 10. She looked at him with fire in her eyes.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!
10. She looked at him with fire in her eyes.
Alliteration
Simile
Metaphor

28. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE 11. The sun draped its arms around my shoulders
Personification
Alliteration
simile

29. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE 12. You look like a million dollars.
Personification
Idiom
Alliteration

30. 13. What figure of speech is this?
“The main body of the island rises straight out of the sea, very high into the air, like a castle?”

31. 14.What figure of speech is this?
“From far off came the thunder of the surf on the reef.”

32. 15. What figure of speech is this?
“There is a sail on his back, not large but terrible to see, for it burns with a white fire.”