1. Figurative Language
By S.M. and aira editor

2. Simile
A figure of speech that
compares unlike things with
as or like.
• Her hair was black
as coal.
• She was as cold as
ice.

3. Metaphor
•
A figure of speech that compared two
unlike things without using like or as.
• Love is a rose.
• My father is a rock.

4. Personification
• A figure of speech that • The stars danced
playfully in the
gives human
characteristics to a
moonlight.
non-human object or
• The fist rays of
animal.
morning tiptoed
through the meadow.

5. Hyperbole
• An exaggeration that
is untrue.
• His brain is the size of
a pea.
• They ran like greased
lightning.

6. Symbolism
Represents abstract ideas.
• The 13 stripes on the
American flag
represents the 13
colonies.
• The 50 stars on the
American flag
represents the 50
states.

7. Idiom
An expression which
does not mean what it
really says.
• That was a curly
question.
• He really went to town
on that issue.

8. Onomatopoeia
• Words which imitate
sounds
• Ring!!! Ring!!! Went
the phone.
• Poink! When the
pebble in the water.

9. Alliteration
• The repetition of
usually initial
consonant sounds in
two or more
neighboring words or
syllables.
• Don’t delay dawns
disarming display.
• Careless cars cutting
corners create
confusion.

10. • I SAID I MADE IT BECAUSE I EDITED IT 