Name_____________________________ Core_____
Figurative Language
a direct comparison of two unlike subjects using the words “like” or “as”
Simile
Examples:
Jordan walked like an elephant on parade.
Jan’s broken nose swelled up like a big red balloon.
an inferred or implied comparison between two unlike objects.
Metaphor
Examples:
Her hair was golden silk streaming in the afternoon breeze.
Michael is the lion king of his class
a figure of speech in which an animal, object, or idea is given human or “person-like”
characteristics
Personification
Examples:
The flowers begged for water.
The wind screamed as it raced around the house.
The house was lazy and unkempt.
language that creates mental pictures by using sensory language.
Imagery
Examples:
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Hear
crackling leaves
whispering pines
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See
orange glow
green willows
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Touch
sun-baked skin
rose’s thorn
the use of words that imitate sounds
Onomatopoeia
Examples:
buzz, hiss, rattle, bang, squish, and screech
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Taste
strawberry ice
Lemonade
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Smell
sweaty clothes
cigarette smoke
a group of words whose meaning is different from the ordinary or literal meaning
Idiom
Examples:
take the bull by the horns; straight from the horse’s mouth; I feel like a million bucks;
a big exaggeration in order to make a point
Hyperbole
Examples:
~I could eat a horse! ~My backpack weighs a ton. ~It took forever to get to the beach.
the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of several words in the same phrase.
Alliteration
Examples:
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper; many marvelous midnights; Floyd Flingle flipped flat
flapjacks; Greta Gruber grabbed a group of green grapes
the repetition of vowel (a,e,i,o,u) sounds in the middle of words in words that do not rhyme
Assonance
For example: assonance: “quite like” vs. rhyme: “quite right”
Dark faces pale against that rosy flame
Their feet sweep by the geeks.
the repetition of more than one consonant sounds where the separating vowels are different
Consonance
Examples:
leaf and loaf, room and roam, wonder and wander, love and leave