Figurative Language

Simile

• a comparison using "like" or "as"
• He is as slow as a turtle.
• He eats like a pig.

Metaphor

• a comparison between two unlike things
• Her voice was music to my ears.
• My brother was boiling mad.

Hyperbole

• an exaggeration
• I had one-million pounds of homework.
• That cat weighed one-thousand pounds!

Personification

• to give human qualities to a animal or object
• Time flew, before I knew it I had to go home.
• The flowers danced in the breeze.

Alliteration

• when words with the same first consonant sound are close together
• Elly's elephants eat eggplants.
• Ally's animals ate apples. 

Onomatopoeia

• a word that imitates the natural sound
• The fireworks went BOOM!
• The waves went SPLASH!

Idiom

• a word or phrase that is not taken litterally
• Claire was as sick as a dog.
• The thought slipped my mind.