Figurative Language Authors use many types of figurative language Personification … · 2014. 9....

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Figurative Language

Authors use many types of figurative language in order to help the reader visualize and

understand what they are writing

Hyperbole

Idiom

Simile

Metaphor

Allusion

Imagery

Irony

Alliteration

Onomato

poeia

Personification

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Simile

using the words "like" or "as" to compare two things that are not alike

I can run as fast as a cheetah.

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Metaphor

compares two unlike things WITHOUT using "like" or "as"

Simile: I can run as fast as a cheetah.

Metaphor: I am a fast cheetah.

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Idiom

common expression known by people

I have a frog in my throat!

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Personification

giving human traits to something that is not human

The leaves were dancing down the street.

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Alliteration

the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of words in a line of

poetry or in a sentence

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

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Onomatopoeia

when a word imitates the sound it is describing

Bang!Crash!Pop!Ding dong!

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Hyperbole

a huge exaggeration that is not meant to be taken seriously

We had to wait forever!

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Imagery

text that uses your senses to create a picture in your head while

reading

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Ironythe opposite of what is supposed to

happen

The fire house caught on fire.

The police officer got arrested for speeding.

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Symbolism

an object that represents an idea or set of ideas

Peter Pan‛s shadow is a symbol of reality. When he loses his shadow, it shows us how he has lost his sense of reality from being in Neverland.

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