Figurative Language
Simile
Definition: Comparing two different things using the words like or as to link them together.
Example: Works LIKE a charm or AS busy AS a bee.
Metaphor
Definition: comparing two unlike things not using the words like or as.
Example: your a firework, you are my sunshine.
Alliteration
Definition: A text that almost all the words start with the same letter or has the same sound.
Example: Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers
Onomatopoeia
Definition: a sound in a story that shows what noise was heard.
Example: BANG! CRASH! BOOM!
Idioms
Definition: You say something but it has a moral to it and you don't mean the exact words you say.
Example: At a drop of a hat (fast/quickly), actions speak louder than words (What you do proves yourself more than what you say)
Hyperbole
Definition: You make an exaggeration based on how you feel about a something.
Example: it's so fluffy i'm going to die! ( your not really going to die), laughing her head off( her head isn't coming off)
Personifacation
Definition: Giving human features to a non-living object though it does it in a way but not really.
Example: The car engine roared as the man started it, the last cookie was calling out my name.
"Similes and Metaphors" by The Bazillions
Alliteration
words that start with the same letter or sound the same.
Onomatopoeia
A word that imitates the sound it represents.
Personifacation
Giving a human emotion to a non-living thing.
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