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Language Arts Project

Published on Mar 18, 2016

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

BY BEN CHAYET
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Simile
A simile is when you compare two unlike things.
Example: She is like a rose.

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Metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech that is saying something and not meaning what you say but how it is inferred.
Example: the curtain of night.

Personification
Personification is when you give human traits to something not human.
Example: the tree is leaning over my shoulder.

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Alliteration
An alliteration is when two words have the same syllable more then once.
Example: Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore.

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Onomatopoeia
Is a word that when you say it sounds like a sound.
Example: Screeeeech or squawk.

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Repetition
When you repeat something like saying more then once or doing it more then once.
Example: I like cats because cats are cool.
I said cats twice.

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Hyperbole
A hyperbole is when you obviously exaggerate something.
Example: I'm so I could eat a horse.

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