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Figurative Language!
(this was better, but I lost my old PowerPoint )

2. Devices of Figurative Language

3. Metaphor
A comparison between two unlike things where one represents the other – something is something else.
I have a mountain of laundry at home. (The laundry is a mountain.)

4. Simile
A comparison between two unlike things where one thing is similar to another – something is like something else. (Will always use like or as)
The toddler hit the living room like a tornado, leaving toys scattered everywhere.
The dog was as big as a house, so we put him on a diet.

5. Personification
When something inhuman (inanimate, animal, or even an idea) is given human-like qualities.
It was so cold that the trees were shivering and the birds put on extra socks.

6. Hyperbole
Exaggeration. When something is made out to be a lot greater than it is.
I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!
It took me four hundred years to drive to school this morning because traffic was so bad.

7. Synecdoche When a part represents a whole.
He asked for her hand in marriage.
Dallas will not be going to the Super Bowl this year.

8. Metonymy
When something is represented by something closely associated with it.
He loved her enough to put a ring on her finger.
We called the press to report the latest news from Washington.

9. Devices of Reference

10. Allusion
Making a reference to something else. The reader should get the reference without it being explained.
I have a real Romeo in my first block class. The girls can’t get enough of him!
If you were a cool teacher, your course would include a lesson on the Dougie.

11. Apostrophe
Talking to something that can’t hear you. This can either be something abstract, an inanimate object, or someone who isn’t there.
O Muse! Come help me make this PowerPoint!
Sunlight, please shine upon my soccer game today!

12. Devices of Sound

13. Alliteration When words share the same beginning consonant sound.
Dog, duck, dingo, drab, down, doofus, drat.
She sells seashells by the seashore.

14. Assonance Words with the same internal vowel sound. Puppy and Duck
Gooey and Tuna
Fresh and Wedding

15. Onomatopoeia When a word is defined by its sound. BAM! POW! Knock Bang
Crack

16. Slant Rhyme
Words with the same ending consonant sound. It almost rhymes, but not quite.
Sing and bang
Been and Serene
Haggle and Google