1. How can I use figurative language to enhance my writing?

2. Simile like as Compare things by using the words like or as. Examples:
My dog eats like a pig.
My dog is as mixed up as a liger.
The dragon has scales like armor.
I’m as brave as a lion.
The clouds are as soft as my pillow.
My dog is as jumpy as a jack rabbit.

3. Metaphor Compare things without using the words like or as. Examples:
The night was a dark cloak.
A colorful quilt of leaves covered the lawn.
The moon was white marble.

4. Hyperbole
Extravagant exaggeration made to show great drama (typically things that can’t really happen).
Examples:
I could sleep for a year.
I could eat a horse.
This book weighs a ton.

5. Alliteration
The repetition of an initial sound in two or more words of a phrase or line of poetry.
Examples:
The clock could climb courageously up the colored wall.
The jumping jelly bean was jolly.
The courageous kid could kick the soccer ball off the field.

6. Personification
Giving human traits/characteristics to non human objects.
Examples
Lightning danced across the sky.
The camera loves me.
The moon seemed to smile at me from the sky.
Trees were dancing with the wind.
Opportunity knocked on the door.
The flowers were really thirsty and drank all of the water.

7. Onomatopoeia
The use of words that imitate sounds that they actually sound like.
Examples:
Buzz
Murmur
Hiss
Roar
Sizzle
Bang

8. Idiom Examples: Break a leg
Bring home the bacon
Under the weather
Raining cats and dogs
Shape up or ship out
Spill the beans
A group of words that has a special meaning and does not match what it appears to say.