1. Hyperbole Idioms Imagery Figurative Language simile assonance
personification
Hyperbole
Idioms
metaphor
Alliteration
Imagery
onomatopoeia

2. “I’ve eaten so much I feel as if I could literally burst!”
Recognizing Literal Language
“I’ve eaten so much I feel as if I could literally burst!”
In this case, the person is not using the word literally in its true meaning. Literal means "exact" or "not exaggerated." By pretending that the statement is not exaggerated, the person stresses how much he has eaten.
Literal language is language that means exactly what is said.
Most of the time, we use
literal language.

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

4. comparing it with something
Simile:
a way of
describing
something by
comparing it with something
else using
"like" or "as"

5. Literature Example: How public – like a Frog -
I am hungry as a horse.
You run like a rabbit.
                                                                        
                                                       
                                                                  
She is happy as a clam.
He is sneaky as a snake.

6. something by comparing it to something else (not using like or as)
Metaphor:
A way of describing
something by comparing it
to something else (not using like or as)

7. Literature Example: My voice having tones of thunder
The girl was a fish in the water.
The clown was a feather floating away.

8. what is actually meant or written
Irony
Is a contrast between
what is said and
what is actually meant or written

9. Examples You stay up all night studying for a test.
When you go to class, you discover
the test is not until the next day.
Examples
Have you ever seen a horror movie that has a killer on the loose? You, and the rest of the audience, know that the teenagers should not go walking in the woods late at night, but they think a midnight stroll would be romantic. Needless to say, the teens become the next victims.
A traffic jam when you're already late

10. Symbolism
When a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself also represents, or stands for, something else.
= innocence
= peace
= America

11. Dialect
is a variety of languages that people speak from a particular region or group.
Sometimes in stories authors use dialects to make a character stand out.

12. Examples~
"Dem Dere" in Brooklyn “ Yah" in Minnesota "Gag me with a spoon" in So. Calif. South: "Y'all" North: "You guys"

13. Analogy
Analogy is a likeness or similarity between things that are otherwise unlike

14. Examples Song is to sing as clock is to time
Book is to read as poem is to rhyme
Snow is to flake as water is to ice
Hate is to love as mean is to nice

15. That ice cream cone was a mile high
Hyperbole
An exaggerated statement used with great exaggeration. Used to emphasis a point.
She’s said so on several million occasions.
That ice cream cone was a mile high

16. Personification
to compare something
that is not human
as if it had human
characteristics

17. The flowers danced in the wind.
                                                            
The friendly gates welcomed us.
The Earth coughed and choked in all of the pollution.

18. Alliteration:
Repetition
of the
first
consonant

19. Alliteration
Repeated consonant sounds occurring at the beginning of words or within words.
Example: She was wide-eyed and wondering while she waited for Walter to waken.

20. Stan the strong surfer saved several swimmers on Saturday.
                                                            
Tiny Tommy Thomson takes toy trucks to Timmy’s on Tuesday.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

21. Is a reference to a famous person, place, event, or work of literature
Allusion
Is a reference to a famous person, place, event, or work of literature

22. Christy did not like to spend money, but she was no Scrooge.
I am afraid of spiders but I am no Cowardly Lion.
The students at EIS
were acting like Greek Warriors
Allusion Examples:

23. Repetition
Is the use of sounds, words, phrases, or whole line used more than once.

24. Repetition Examples: Rain
The rain is falling all around It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea.
Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the way. Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse opened sleigh~ Hey. Jingle Bells……
Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty together again

25. vowel sounds. Doesn't have to rhyme!!
Assonance:
The repetition
of internal
vowel sounds. Doesn't have to rhyme!!

26. Princess Kitty will kiss Timmy T. Tippers’s lips
                                                                        
                                    
Princess Kitty will kiss Timmy T. Tippers’s lips
The pain may drain Drake, but maybe the weight is fake.

27. Onomatopoeia:
the use of words that mimic sounds.

28. The firecracker made a loud ka-boom! Yeeeeee Ahhhhhhhh
                                               
Swish swish swish
Glippp Gluppp Gluppp
Chug chug chug!!

29. Imagery • Sight • Hearing • Touch • Taste • Smell
Language that appeals to the senses. Descriptions of people or objects stated in terms of our senses.
• Sight
• Hearing
• Touch
• Taste
• Smell

30. Idioms
An idiom or idiomatic expression refers to a construction or expression in one language that cannot be matched or directly translated word-for-word in another language.
Example: "She has a bee in her bonnet," meaning "she is obsessed," cannot be literally translated into another language word for word.