PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Figurative Language
By: Evan Weber
Simile
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make description more emphatic or vivid.
It's as easy as falling off a log
Metaphor
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Her eyes were diamonds.
Idiom
A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deductible from those of the individual words.
Let's hit the road.
Hyperbole
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to take literally.
I'm so hungry I eat a squirrel.
Personification
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristic to something non human or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
The stars danced in the moonlit sky.
Onomatopoeia
The formation of a sound associated with what is named.
SPLAT!
Alliteration
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
