1. Figurative Language simile personification metaphor Alliteration
onomatopoeia

2. Figurative Language
Figurative language is language that means more than what it says on the surface.
It usually gives us a feeling about its subject.
A writers tool
It helps the reader visualize (see) what the writer is thinking
It puts a picture in the readers mind

3. What is figurative language?
Whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else, you are using figurative language.

4. Why use figurative language?
The writer wants the reader to gain a deeper understanding of what they are writing about
The writer wants to give an image to the reader as they are reading
The writer wants the reader to make a connection and compare ideas
The writer wants to make the words come alive to the reader

5. Types of Figurative Language
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Personification
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Idiom

6. A comparison between 2 unlike things, using the words “like” or “as”
Simile
A comparison between 2 unlike things, using the words “like” or “as”

7. Example Similes I am hungry as a horse. You run like a rabbit.
                                                       
                                                                        
She is happy as a clam.
He is sneaky as a snake.

8. Metaphor
a comparison between
two unlike things

9. Example Metaphors Life is a highway. You’re a firework.
Time is a river.

10. give human characteristics to something not human
Personification
give human characteristics
to something not human
(i.e., animals, objects, or ideas)

11. Personification The flowers danced in the wind.
                                                            
The friendly gates welcomed us.
The winds yelled at me
outside my window.

12. Alliteration
repetition of the
beginning sounds
of words

13. Alliteration Alliteration: when the first sounds in words repeat.
Examples
Peter Piper picked a pickled pepper.
Larry likes to leap.
Make up an Alliteration using your first name….
                                                            

14. Alliteration Examples
                                                            
Stan the strong surfer saved several swimmers on Saturday.
Tiny Tommy Thomson takes toy trucks to Timmy’s on Tuesday.

15. Onomatopoeia:
Words that are
sounds

16. Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia: When a word’s pronunciation imitates its sound.
Examples
Buzz Fizz Woof
Hiss Clink Boom
Beep Vroom Zip
                                               

17. Onomatopoeia Examples
The firecracker made a loud ka-boom!
                                               
The ball went swish as it hit the net.
I knew the car was going to break down because it went chuga chuga chug…

18. Hyperbole An exaggeration used for emphasis.
Example: You have told me this a million times.

19. Idioms
An idiom is an expression different from the ordinary meaning of the words.
The context can help you understand what an idiom means.
Example:
“It is raining cats and dogs” means it is raining really hard.
- It is not really raining cats and dogs out of the sky.

20. Idioms
An expression that carries a different meaning because of the context in which it is used
“slang” terms
Examples of Idiom
“Up the creek without a paddle”
“On top of the world”
“Fingers crossed”
“Shake a leg” or “Break a leg”
“Put a lid on it”