Figurative Language
similes,metaphors,personification,hyperbole,alliteration
Simile
A figure of speech involving the comparisonof one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid,using like or as.
Example: Prim's face is as fresh as a raindrop, as lovely as the primrose for which she was named.
Metaphor
A figure of speech in which a word or phraseis applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Example: When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold with winter.
Personification
The attribution of a personal nature orhuman characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Example:The world begins to bend in alarming ways" "I trip and fall into a small pit of orange bubbles that hum like the tracker jacker nest".
Hyperbole
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
Example: From the hundreds of kisses I had shared with Peeta, this moved something.
Alliteration
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Example: One of them is 'seeking Prim's warmth but finding only the rough canvas cover of the mattress.