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Figurative Language

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  • I rember the summers with lightening bugs and honeysuckles smell; the cold winters when the field would all be brown and would crackle under my feet.
    Imagery
  • She was as sly as a fox.
    simile
  • 4. It really burned me up when you yelled at me.
    idiom
  • see, smell, taste, feel, hear
    imagery
  • 1. When we say that someone is AN ANGEL, what do we mean?
    good/ bad
  • 5. He clattered and clanged as he washed the dishes.
    onomatopoeia
  • 2. If someone is LIKE A STAR, what does that mean?
    celebrity status/ admired
  • Create a sentence to describe this picture. Use any of the following types of figurative language. Then identify the kind of figurative language that you used. Alliteration, Hyperbole, Onomatopoeia, Simile, Metaphor, Idiom, Personifica
    Answers may vary
  • personification
    figurative language which gives animals and inanimate objects human characteristics and feelings
  • give someone the cold shoulder
    idiom
  • 7. The snowman was as fluffy as a marshmallow.
    simile
  • "ahem"
    onomatopoeia
  • the autumn leaves are a blanket on the ground
    imagery
  • Alliteration
    Repeated consonant or vowel sounds at the beginning of words. Alliteration is used to create mood or emphasize certain words
  • "Fifty years ago I learned to read at a round table in the center of a large, Sweet-Smelling, Steam-Softened kitchen."
    Alliteration
  • metaphor
    A metaphor is a comparison between two things. unlike a simile, a metaphor does not use the word like or as; a metaphor implies the comparison by stating that o
  • Rita heard the last piece of pie calling her name.
    personification
  • Repeated consonant or vowel sounds at the beginning of words. Alliteration is used to create mood or emphasize certain words
    Alliteration
  • money matters
    alliteration
  • 10. The town was covered in wonderful, white, wintery snow.
    alliteration
  • 4. Finish the Alliteration: Many Monsters ______________
    answers will vary
  • 6. When she lost her job, she became mean old Scrooge.
    allusion
  • imagery
    Descriptive language used to appeal to the five senses and to create vivid mental pictures.
  • Hyperbole
    An exaggeration or overstatement used for effect. such statements are not literally true, but people make them sound impressive or to emphasize something."
  • "It was cold and hard, but I was so tired I could have slept in a wind tunnel."
    Hyperbole
  • A metaphor is a comparison between two things. unlike a simile, a metaphor does not use the word like or as; a metaphor implies the comparison by stating that one thing is another thing.
    metaphor
  • That knife is as sharp as a razor.
    simile
  • "His Super-Slow dip- Stride Slump Shuffle"
    Alliteration
  • figurative language which gives animals and inanimate objects human characteristics and feelings
    personification
  • 14. Most cats purr if you pet them behind the ears.
    onomatopoeia
  • flags flutter and flap
    onomatopoeia/ alliteration
  • I slept like a rock last night.
    hyperbole
  • go on a wild goose chase
    idiom
  • 3. The sunflowers nodded their yellow heads.
    personification
  • get a taste of your own medicine
    idiom
  • 15. The thunder was a mighty lion.
    A. metaphor
  • I'm pleased to meet your better half.
    metaphor
  • The furnace purred like a great, sleepy animal.
    personification
  • You're as light as a feather.
    hyperbole
  • An exaggeration or overstatement used for effect. such statements are not literally true, but people make them sound impressive or to emphasize something."
    Hyperbole
  • Hyperbole
    An exaggeration or overstatement used for effect. such statements are not literally true, but people make them sound impressive or to emphasize something."
  • The person in front of me walked as slow as a turtle.
    hyperbole
  • rocky road
    alliteration
  • 9. The lightning fast sled shot flames as it slid down the hill!
    hyperbole
  • The wind howled in the night.
    personification
  • simile
    Figurative language that uses like or as to directly compare two unlike things.
  • 12. My alarm clock yells at me every morning. 1
    personification
  • A figurative language technique in which words resemble the real sound they refer to.
    Onomatopoeia
  • His nostrils flared; he was breathing like a picadored bull.
    simile
  • Onomatopoeia
    A figurative language technique in which words resemble the real sound they refer to.
  • 1. The rain falls like the sun, rising upon the mountains.
    simile
  • good things come to those who wait
    idiom
  • She's as cold as ice.
    simile
  • 2. The fly buzzed past us.
    onomatopoeia
  • She had a voice like an unoiled gate, but somehow not unpleaseant.
    simile
  • 11. The boy with straight A’s was a regular Einstein.
    Allusion
  • My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.
    personification
  • There is a weight on my shoulder.
    metaphor
  • His words felt like a dagger in my heart.
    imagery
  • Figurative language that uses like or as to directly compare two unlike things.
    simile
  • The car complained as the key was roughly turned in its ignition.
    personification
  • 8. The fire broke out in the dead of winter .
    idiom
  • An expression that, taken literally, means something other than it does figuratively.
    Idiom
  • 13. Alicia is an angel.
    metaphor
  • Descriptive language used to appeal to the five senses and to create vivid mental pictures.
    imagery
  • His heart of stone surprised me.
    metaphor
  • quick question
    alliteration
  • "belch"
    onomatopoeia
  • 7. Imagery is words that being a clear _____________ to a reader's mind.
    PICTURE
  • picture perfect
    alliteration
  • frogs croaks, birds whistle
    onomatopoeia
  • Time is money.
    metaphor
  • 5. "The microwave timer told me dinner was ready." How is this a personification?
    answers vary
  • 6. What does "It's raining cats and dogs" really mean?
    raining a lot
  • idiom
    An expression that, taken literally, means something other than it does figuratively.
  • "His smile was so wide he's have to break it into sections to fit it through the doorway."
    Hyperbole
  • the bus bounced like an empty cracker box on wheels.
    simile
  • Cunning like a fox.
    simile
  • Lightning danced across the sky.
    personification
  • Be careful, it's a jungle out there.
    hyperbole
  • "giggle"
    onomatopoeia