1. What writers use to create word pictures in the mind.
Figurative Language
What writers use to create word pictures in the mind.

2. Simile
A simile is a comparison that uses like or as. It points out how two unlike things have something in common.
Example: The clouds were like cotton candy stuck on the sky.
His beard was as white as the snow.

3. Metaphor
A metaphor is a comparison that says one thing is another unlike thing. It suggests how things are alike.
Example: The black rolling clouds are elephants going down to the sea for water.

4. Personification
Personification is the giving of human qualities to an object, an animal, or an idea.
Examples: Money talks.
The wind moaned and screeched.

5. Alliteration Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds.
Example: Pretty as a picture.
Usually the sounds that are repeated come at the beginning of the words.

6. Onomatopoeia Onomatopoeia is the use of words that imitate sounds.
Examples: boom, hiss, crunch

7. Hyperbole
Hyperbole is exaggeration that puts an image into a reader’s mind. Usually it is funny.
Example: I’ve eaten so much I could burst.

8. Symbolism
Symbolism is when an object represents an idea or concept. Example: The American flag symbolizes freedom.