Figurative Language

Figurative Language By: Brandy Coulter Mrs. Cox 4th Period

~PERSONIFICATION~ An animal given human-like qualities or an object given life-like qualities. Example: The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky..

~Alliteration~ Consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words. Example: Fred’s friends fried Fritos for Friday’s food.

Assonance Repeated Vowels sounds in a line or lines of poetry. Flash with a rash with give me my cash flicking' my ashRunning with my money, son, go out with a blast."

Hyperbole Exaggeration often used for emphasis. This situation is at least a million billion times worse than I imagined. Example: I could eat a horse.

Onomatopeoia Words that imitate the sound that they are naming! Examples: Woof! BOOM! Ding-dong Bang!

Example: The boat hugged the shore. Metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea;

Simile Example: The cow was like a horse walking. a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared

Imagerey the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively: the dim imagery of a dream. Example: has 5 Senses.

Idiom A speech form or an expression of a given language that is peculiar to itself grammatically Example: To pay through the nose.

Consonance Correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds. Raleigh has backed the maid to a treeAs Ireland is backed to England.

Figurative Language