Figurative Language

What is a simile?

• A figure of speech that states one thing is another thing.

• Descriptive language comparing two things using the words "like" or "as".

• exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

• A word used to imitate a sound.

What is a metaphor?

• A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unrelated things. Does not use like or as.

• The idea that things represent other things.

• the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

• gives human characteristics to nonhuman things or inanimate objects

What is alliteration?

• A word that mimics a sound

• A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unrelated things. Does not use "like" or "as".

• the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• Use of symbols to represent ideas the idea that things represent other things

What is symbolism?

• the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• A word that mimics a sound

• The idea that things represent other things

• When an author gives human characteristics to a nonhuman thing

What is imagery?

• When an author gives human characteristics to a nonhuman thing

• The idea that things represent other things

• language used by poets, novelists and other writers to create images in the mind of the reader

• a self-contradicting word or group of words

What is personification?

• a self contradicting word or group of words

• the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• When an author gives human characteristics to a nonhuman things or inanimate objects.

• language used by poets, novelists and other writers to create images in the mind of the reader.

His words were a knife to my heart. He really hurt my feelings. This is an example of...

• personification

• symbolism

• simile

• metaphor

"I saw you hold our home together like a foundation that would never crumble." This is an example of...

• Symbolism

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

"We lurk late. We strike straight." These lines are an example of what type of figurative language?

• Alliteration

• rhyme

• simile

• repetition

The color red could be used in a story or poem to represent passion or love. What type of figurative language is this an example of?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Symbolism

• Imagery