This document defines and provides examples of various types of figurative language including simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, pun, irony, alliteration, hyperbole, and idioms. It explains when and how to use figurative language to improve writing and make it more creative.
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Figurative lang
1. Figurative
Language
Language that makes your writing
come alive.
2. When to use…
Anytime you want to improve your
writing.
When you want to describe an
event, person, thing, or place.
When you want to break up your writing
and make it more creative.
8. Metaphor
She is a duck in water.
All the world's a stage” (Shakespeare).
Life is a journey,
The goalkeeper was a rock
9. Metaphor
Mr. McCann is a
___________________________.
Mrs. Jones is a
____________________________.
Ms. Heavens is a
_____________________________.
10. Personification
Giving life like qualities to non living
things.
Such as
emotions, desires, sensations, physical
gestures and speech
11. Personification
Earth felt the wound.
Snow speaks to the people.
Oreo: Milk’s favorite cookie
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
12. Personification
Reading
___________________________________________________
___________________________________.
The clock _________________________________.
13. Onamonapia
the formation of words whose
sound is imitative of the sound of
the noise or action designated.
Such as hiss, ______,and bang
16. Pun
A pun is a figure of speech which consists of a deliberate
confusion of similar words or phrases for rhetorical effect,
whether humorous or serious.
It is supposed to be funny.
17. Pun
A bicycle can't stand alone because it is
two-tired.
What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead
giveaway)
In democracy it's your vote that counts; in
feudalism it's your count > that votes.
18. Pun
Did you hear about the fire in the
circus, it was intense.
With her marriage she got a new name
and a dress.
Without geometry, life is pointless.
19. Irony
The use of words to convey a meaning
that is the opposite of its literal
meaning.
The song Ironic, is only a use of irony
because there are no example of irony.
20. Irony
the Hard Rock Cafe was destroyed by a building collapse.
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.
24. Hyperbole
An exaggerated statement used to heighten effect. It is
not used to mislead the reader, but to emphasize a point.
It’s a huge _________________.
25. Hyperbole
I told you a million times to pick
up your room.
I have 20 hours of homework
tonight.
26. Hyperbole
If she does not go out with me I will
just die.
The other team was 10 feet tall.
No one has ever felt like this.