1. Figurative Language

2. “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - it's the difference between the lightning bug and lightning. ”
-Mark Twain

3. Imagery:
Language that creates pictures in the mind and excites the senses.

5. Metaphor:
A figure of speech, not using the words like or as, that compares two usually unrelated things.

6. Example:

7. Love to 5 Job
Hunger Highway
Pain TV Dinner
Happiness Flower
Sleep Cloud
Desire Hammer
Friends Clock
Life Park

8. Uses like or as to compare usually unrelated things.
Simile:
Uses like or as to compare usually unrelated things.

9. “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get.”
-Forrest Gump

10. Allusion:
Reference to a well known person, place, thing or idea.

11. The Lion King references Shakespeare’s play Hamlet
The Lion King references Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. The plot is very similar; the uncle kills the king to take his place and the son seeks revenge.

12. Antithesis:
The specific balancing and contrasting of one term against another, which is the opposite.

13. Contrast Imagery:
“Ask not what your country can do for you: Ask what you can do for your country.” -John F. Kennedy

14. Example:
It doesn’t matter if you are young or old, experienced or inexperienced, rich or poor, you can make a difference in this organization.

15. Oxymoron:
Places words that are in opposition directly side by side

16. Examples: Quiet storm Awfully pretty Agree to disagree Civil War
Educated guess

17. Hyperbole:
Overstatement; saying more than what is true for the sake of emphasis.

18. Examples: “I called you a million times!”
“Mom, I don’t have anything to wear to school!”
“lol”

19. Understatement:
Makes less of something; uses language that “draws the listener in” because it cleverly “distorts” in its own way and makes us see an absurdity more clearly.

20. Example: It’s a bit hot in Texas. My summer was okay.
Michael Phelps did pretty good in the Olympics.

21. Personification:
Giving human characteristics to non-human things.

22. Examples: The wind whistled throughout the day.
The stars winked at me.
The candle flame danced in the night.