1. Figurative Language
Words used differently from their regular meaning to create pictures in your mind

2. Simile, Metaphor, and Personification

3. Simile A simile is used to compare two things
It uses the words “like” or “as” to make comparisons.

4. Simile He is as fast as a speeding bullet
Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you will get.

5. Simile
My love is like a red, red rose.
- Robert Burns

6. Metaphor Like As A metaphor is used to compare two things
A metaphor does not use like or as
Like As

7. Metaphor
She was drowning in tears.
Love hurts.

8. Metaphor All the world’s a stage, and we are merely players.
William Shakespeare

9. Personification
To describe something that is not human as if it is human.

10. Personification The earth is choking on all the pollution.
The wind whistled loudly.

11. Personification
Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me;
Emily Dickinson

12. Simile, Metaphor, or Personification?
She was quiet as a mouse.
Simile
The world is listening.
Personification
He was steaming mad.
Metaphor

13. Imagery and Hyperbole

14. Imagery Language that makes us use our senses.
(See, Smell, Taste, Hear, Touch)
It creates a mental picture.

15. Imagery The lightning lit up the night sky.
The ocean pounded the shore.
They were blanketed by fog.

16. Imagery
Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky.
T.S. Elliot

17. Hyperbole
Statements are exaggerated to create a strong feeling

18. Hyperbole She had the weight of the world on her shoulders.
These books weigh a ton!

19. Hyperbole
If I eat one more piece of pie, I’ll die!
Shel Silverstein

20. Imagery or Hyperbole? I am dying of thirst. Unreal city,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn.
Imagery

21. Now it’s in your hands…
Can you juggle all the types of figurative language?