Figurative Language

What is alliteration?

• The use of the same sound or letter at the beginning of words in a sentence or poem.

• Imagery is when the author uses words and phrases to create a “mental picture” for the reader. The author will use descriptive words and phrases that will appeal to the five senses: taste, touch, sight, sound, and smell.

• Exaggerated Language

• A way of comparing two things that uses the words “Like” or “As”

What is hyperbole?

• a figure of speech the seems to contain contradictory words

• words that recreate a sound

• A way of comparing two things that states that one thing IS the other.

• exaggerated language

What is onomatopoeia?

• Words that recreate a sound

• the figurative meaning means something different from the literal meaning.

• Exaggerated language

• A way of comparing two things that states that one thing IS the other.

What is imagery?

• A way of comparing two things that uses the words “Like” or “As”

• To give human qualities to nonhuman objects

• Imagery is when the author uses words and phrases to create a “mental picture” for the reader. The author will use descriptive words and phrases that will appeal to the five senses: taste, touch, sight, sound, and smell.

• A way of comparing two things that states that one thing IS the other.

What is a metaphor?

• a figure of speech the seems to contain contradictory words

• A comparison of two things A statement that one thing is another An indirect suggestion of similarity

• A way of comparing two things that uses the words “Like” or “As”

• To give human qualities to nonhuman objects

What is personification?

• Words that recreate a sound

• To give animal qualities to nonhuman objects

• The use of the same sound or letter at the beginning of words in a sentence or poem.

• To give human qualities to nonhuman objects

What is a simile?

• The use of the same sound or letter at the beginning of words in a sentence or poem.

• A way of comparing two things that states that one thing IS the other.

• A way of comparing two things that uses the words “Like” or “As”

• a figure of speech the seems to contain contradictory words

What is an oxymoron?

• exaggerated language

• a figure of speech the seems to contain contradictory words

• words that recreate a sound

• a comparison that uses "like" or "as"

What is an idiom?

• A comparison of two things A statement that one thing is another An indirect suggestion of similarity

• the figurative meaning means something different from the literal meaning.

• A way of comparing two things that uses the words “Like” or “As”

• Exaggerated Language

An _________ metaphor goes on for more than one line and can extend for several lines or be present throughout an entire poem.

• onomatopoeia

• extended

• simile

• idiom