1. Figurative Language

2. What is figurative language?
Using language in a way to create a special effect, made up of words that don’t mean what they first appear to mean.

3. Simile-Comparisons between two unlike things using the words “like” or “as”
Examples:
I am as busy as a bee
Fighting with my sister is like fighting a war

4. Metaphor- Comparison between two unlike things without using the word “like” or “as”
Examples:
My heart’s a stereo and it beats for you
Her eyes were fireflies

5. Personification- When a writer gives human characteristics or traits to an object or idea
Examples:
The candle flame danced in the dark.
Thunder grumbled during the night.
Her smile hugged me

6. Hyperbole-An exaggeration that is so dramatic that no one would believe it was true
Examples:
I’ve see this movie a million times
I can smell pizza a mile away

7. Idiom- An expression that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words.
Examples:
Break a leg
A piece of cake
Don’t cry over spilt milk

8. Alliteration- The repetition of the same initial sound, letter, or group of sounds in a series of words
Examples:
Big Brown Bears
Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore

9. Onomatopoeia-The use of words to imitate a natural sound or the sound made by an object or an action
Examples:
Boom!
Snap, crackle, pop!