Figurative Language

By: Brook DaughertyDecember2008

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Metaphor definition

• comparison between two things

Metaphor internet example

• a rainbow of colors [ ;

• http://knowgramming.com/metaphors/metaphor_chapters/metaphor_examples-sensory.htm

Metaphor personal example

I was as happy as a dolphin.

Simile definition

a simile is something that uses like or as.

Simile internet example

• I stop walking The wind pushes against my back Telling me to move forward

Personal simile example.

• I can feel the cold air blow as sweet as a song.

Alliteration internet example

• See Sally sell seashells by the seashore.

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Alliteration

• Windy was wickedly wild

Personification definition

• A personification is a figure of speech that gives an inanimate object or abstract idea human traits and qualities, such as emotions, desires, sensations, physical gestures and speech.

personification internet example

• Oreo: Milk’s favorite cookie."

Personification example

• Joe is the “teachers pet”

Idiom definition

• An idiom is an expression, that is a term or phrase whose meaning cannot be deduced from the literal definitions and the arrangement of its parts, but refers instead to a figurative meaning that is known only through common use

Idiom internet example

• Bob said the test was difficult, but I thought it was a piece of cake

Idiom example

I told Sydney to go brake a leg at her gymnastics meet.

Onomatopoeia definition

The use of words which in their pronunciation suggest their meaning. "Hiss," for example, when spoken is intended resemble the sound of steam or of a snake.

Onomatopoeia example

• The snake hissed at me.

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