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Clifton Dailey September 19,2011. Clifton’s Figurative Language PowerPoint. S imile. Using like or as to compare 2 things. Ex: That man is as old as dirt. Ex : She is as proud as a peacock. Metaphor. Comparing 2 things without using like or as. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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CLIFTON’S FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE POWERPOINT
Clifton Dailey September 19,2011
Simile
Using like or as to compare 2 things.
Ex: That man is as old as dirt.
Ex :She is as proud as a peacock.
Metaphor
Comparing 2 things without using like or as.
Ex She is a Gorrilla in the morning.
Ex He is a cheetah when he is running.
Hyperbole
Using exaggeration to make a point.
His teeth were blinding white.
My car is a million years old.
onomatopoeia
Sound word .
The bird went chirp.
The ghost went boo.
Alliteration
Repetition of beginning sound
Ex :Long legged Lucy lost my lunch.
Personification Giving human qualities to something
that is not human.
Ex: The vines yelled at me when I stepped on them.
Idiom
A well known expression that does not mean what it says
Ex: Go fly a kite.
Practice problems
1. The chair screamed when he sat in it. 2.The car went boom. 3. The house is as messy as a junk yard. 4. His head is as big as a watermelon. 5. The lightening danced across the field. 6. Before I went on stage, he told me to
break a leg. 7. Her hair is a dirty mop in the morning.