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Learn about various figurative language techniques such as personification, alliteration, assonance, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, metaphor, simile, and imagery with examples. Improve your writing skills and creativity by understanding how to effectively use these literary devices.
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Figurative Language Kristy Lee October 11,2011 5th Period
Personification • An animal given human-like qualities or an object given life-like qualities. • Example ; • Sun smiling down , or the boat hugged the shore.
Alliteration • Consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words. • Example ; • Sally seems to sit somewhere separate from Sonia.
Assonance • Repeated VOWELS sounds in a line or lines of poem. • Example ; • I baked a cake and ate it.
hyperbole • Exaggeration often used for emphasis. • Example ; • Man that’s like a million times harder!
Onomatopoeia • Words that imitate the sound they are naming. • Example ; • But with a buzz or a ding or a hiss or a roar.
Metaphor • A direct comparison of two unlike things. • Example ; • My mind is an ocean , my words are a river.
Simile • A comparison of two things using like or as. • Example ; • Smooth as jazz
Imagery • Most images are visual but they can also appeal to the senses of sound touch taste or smell. • Example ; Sweet Sorrow
Consonance • Consonant sounds close together • Example ; • I dropped the locket in the thick mud .
idiom • Literal meaning of its individual words. • Example ; • Have the upper hand or under the weather