FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Simile 1-3
• Metaphor 4-6
• Personification 7-9
• Idiom 10-12
• Hyperbole 13-15
• Idioms 16-18
• Oxymoron 19-21
• Onomatopoeia 22-24

Simile
Using the words like or as to compare two nouns that are not alike

Simile example

I'm as fast as a cheetah

My simile

I'm as perfect as a banana

Metaphor
Comparing two nouns that aren't alike

Metaphor example

It's raining cats and dogs

My metaphor

I'm Sasha

Personification
Describing human qualities in something that is not a person

Example

My computer died

My personification

Parker's hockey stick hit me

My bullet slapped the target

Idioms

sayings that have hidden meanings

Example

He is driving me up the wall

My idiom

I hit the sack.
The flea said put a sock in it.
It's raining cats and dogs.
The flea drove me up the wall.

Alliteration
Putting together two or more words that begin with the same sound is called alliteration

Example
Dally sells seashells by the seashore

Dylan drags dj through da door

Hyperbole
An exaggeration that is not meant to be taken seriously

Example
We had to wait forever

My dog bites so hard that she is a nurse Guess what she does... amputations

Oxymoron
N is a combination of contradictory words

Example
Jumbo shrimp

My example

Great Depression

Onomatopoeia
When a word sounds like the sound it is describing

Bang goes the cap of the cap gun

My example
Grrr goes the growl of Sasha when she bites me