1. LITERAL LANGUAGE – WORDS MEAN EXACTLY WHAT THEY SAY
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
LITERAL LANGUAGE – WORDS MEAN EXACTLY WHAT THEY SAY
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE – IMAGINATIVE USE OF WORDS.

2. Types of Figurative Language
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole (hy-per-bo-lee)
Personification
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia

3. Why do writers use FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE?
To add PIZZAZZ to their writing
To help the reader visualize what is going on
To add VIVID images

4. SIMILE
FIGURE OF SPEECH COMPARING UNLIKE THINGS USING “LIKE” AND “AS”

5. SIMILES (continued)
“…the red sweater is still sitting there like a big red mountain.”
“Only today I wish I didn’t have only eleven years rattling inside me like pennies in a tin Band-Aid box.”

6. METAPHOR
A COMPARISON OF TWO THINGS NOT USING “LIKE” OR “AS”

7. METAPHORS (continued)
“I put my head down on the desk and bury my face in my stupid clown sweater arms.”
The red mountain of a sweater was sitting there on the edge of my desk.
“…THE RIBBON OF ROAD WOUND THROUGH THE FARM LAND.”
Crow Call - Lowry

8. alliteration Jerry Jordan’s jelly jar and jam Dr. Suess
Repetition of the first consonant sound in words
Jerry Jordan’s jelly jar and jam Dr. Suess

9. Alliteration (continued)
“…that stupid Sylvia Saldivar says…”
“While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping.” The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe

10. HYPERBOLE (HY-PER-BO-LEE)
OBVIOUS EXAGGERATION TO EMPHASIZE A POINT OR ADD EXCITEMENT

11. Hyperbole (continued)
My book bag weighs a ton!
I nearly died laughing.
“It’s maybe a thousand years old and even if it belonged to me I wouldn’t say so.” Eleven- Cisneros

12. PERSONIFICATION
GIVING HUMAN QUALITIES TO SOMETHING NOT HUMAN

13. Personification (continued)
The sun wrapped its warm arms around my shoulders.
The trees danced in the wind.

14. onomatopoeia
Words that represent the actual sound of something

15. onomatopoeia (continued)
The chalk goes screak,
screak, screak like fingernails scraping All of the Above by Shelly Piersall
The sack fell into the river with a splash.

16. Figurative Language
Guess the type of figurative language!

17. I ate so many tacos, I could explode!

18. hyperbole

19. The alarm clock went off like a bomb!

20. Simile

21. The ants marched home.

22. Personification

23. The police car was a neon pinball at lightning speed as we pulled our car over to the side of the dark road to get out of the way.

24. metaphor

25. The sun went to bed!

26. Personification

27. The moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.

28. Metaphor

29. She was as quiet as a mouse.
CLICHÉ
ALERT!!

30. Simile

31. The tick-tock of the old clock.

32. onomatopoeia

33. The trees whispered to each other in the darkness.

34. Personification

35. It is going to take me a year to finish that research paper.

36. hyperbole

38. onomatopoeia

40. alliteration

41. As we looked at the pond the frog’s tongue was moving like lightning.

42. Simile

43. She ate the mountain of food greedily.

44. metaphor

45. They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot. Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell

46. alliteration