Figurative Language Simile Comparing two dissimilar things using

Figurative Language

Simile • Comparing two dissimilar things using like or as • The sun is like a big, orange marble in the sky. • Helen’s eyes are as blue as the sky.

Change the sentences by adding a simile • Joe was mad. • Missy was happy. • Brett was scared.

Personification • Giving human traits to something that is not human • The alarm clocked screamed at me to wake up.

Personify the following • The wind • The chair • The fire

Hyperbole • An extreme exaggeration • We ate ice cream cones with scoops a mile high. • Cindy is so hungry she could eat a whole cow.

Add a hyperbole to the sentences. *Be careful not to make it a simile. • The line was long. • It was a hot day. • Pam was thirsty.

Alliteration • The repeating of the first sound in more than two words in a sentence. • The wild and wooly walrus waited on the beach. • Kevin killed the king with his karate moves. • More alliteration examples

Onomatopoeia • A word that sounds like what it means • buzz, hiss, roar, woof, boom, crash

Idiom • An expression that has meaning but does not mean what it says literally. • My homework was a piece of cake. • Tim woke up on the wrong side of the bed. • Idiom site

Metaphor • Comparing two dissimilar things by saying one thing is the other. • Her hair was silk. • Peter was a raging bull on the basketball court.

Change the sentences by adding a metaphor • Joe was mad. • Missy was happy. • Brett was scared.