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Figurative Language
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Metaphor Two things are compared without using “like” or “as.”
Examples All the world is a stage. Her heart is stone.
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Figurative and Literal Language
Literally: words function exactly as defined The car is blue. He caught the football. Figuratively: figure out what it means I’ve got your back. You’re a doll. ^Figures of Speech
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Comparison of two things using “like” or “as.”
Simile Comparison of two things using “like” or “as.” Examples The metal twisted like a ribbon. She is as sweet as candy.
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A comparison must be made.
Important! Using “like” or “as” doesn’t make a simile. A comparison must be made. Not a Simile: I like pizza. Simile: The moon is like a pizza.
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Exaggerating to show strong feeling or effect.
Hyperbole Exaggerating to show strong feeling or effect. Examples My house is a million miles away. She’d kill me if I told you her secret.
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Personification Giving human traits to objects or ideas. Examples
The streets are calling me. The fire swallowed the forest.
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Pathetic Fallacy Nature takes on human qualities or reflects human emotions. A sub-group of personification The sunlight danced across her face. Water on the lake shivered.
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Synecdoche A part of something represents the whole.
All hands on deck. Wow, that’s a nice set of wheels.
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Idiom A saying that isn’t meant to be taken literally.
Doesn’t “mean” what it says Don’t be a stick in the mud! You’re the apple of my eye.
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He drew a line as straight as an arrow.
1 He drew a line as straight as an arrow.
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2 A flag wags like a fishhook there in the sky.
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3 I'd rather take baths with a man-eating shark, or wrestle a lion alone in the dark, eat spinach and liver, pet ten porcupines, than tackle the homework, my teacher assigns.
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4 Ravenous and savage from its long polar journey, the North Wind is searching for food—
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5 Dinner is on the house.
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6 Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
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7 The clouds smiled down at me.
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8 I could sleep forever!
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9 The wheat field was a sea of gold.
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10 Your face is killing me!
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THANKS: Credits: Nashua School District English Department
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