FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

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Alliteration

•Alliteration is a sentence or

phrase that begins with the same

letter and sound.

•Tongue twisters are generally

alliteration.

Busy batters bat

baseballs by bases.

• Onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like the noise it represents.

• Using onomatopoeia can make your writing sound alive!

SimilesSimiles compare two things by telling how they are alike

using the words “like” or “as.”

I am as hungry as a bear right before lunchtime!

Quit acting like a chicken with its head cut off

Jill’s eyes are as blue as the sky.

Looking for my missing homework is like trying to find a needle in a haystack!

MetaphorsMetaphors compare two things by telling how they are

alike, but they don’t use the words “like” or “as.”

Metaphors say that one thing is another thing.

Brian was a bolt of lightning dribbling down the soccer field.

We would have had more pizza if Mr. Preston hadn’t been such a hog.

I was so upset, I was a an erupting volcano of emotions.

Personification is giving human qualities to animals or objects.

Here are some examples:

My alarm clock told me it was time to wake up.

The golden leaf kissed my cheek as it fell.

The oak tree groaned as it swayed in the wind.

Personification

Idioms are expressions that have a “figurative” meaning different from what you might think.

Spill the beansLet the cat out of the bag

Drove me up the wallRaining cats and dogs