Figurative Language and Sound Devices 8 th grade

Figurative Language and Sound Devices 8 th grade language arts

A direct comparison between two basically different things. A simile is introduced by the words “like” or “as”.

My love is like a red, red rose.

An implied comparison between two basically different things and is not introduced with the words “like” or “as”.

The eyes were daggers that cut right through me.

A great exaggeration to emphasize strong feeling.

He was so hungry he could have eaten a horse.

I will love you until all the seas go dry.

Human characteristics are given to non-human animals, objects, or ideas.

My stereo walked out of my car.

The use of sensory details that appeal to the five senses.

Cold, wet leaves floating on mosscolored water.

A figure of speech which suggests or imitates the sound of what it describes.

Boom! Crash!

A pair of words consisting of two seemingly contradictory terms.

The repeating of a sound, word, phrase, or more in a given literary work.

“I sprang to the stirrup, and Jarvis, and he; I galloped, Derrick galloped, we galloped all three”

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words.

“Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship” “. . . that hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. ”

The repetition of consonant sounds that are preceded by different vowel sounds. The consonants are not at the beginning of the word.

“Wherever we go Silence will fall like dews”