Engaging Examples of Figurative Language
Explore the beauty of figurative language with examples of simile, hyperbole, alliteration, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, idiom, and understatement. Enhance your writing skills today!
Engaging Examples of Figurative Language
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Figurative language! By Evan Czaplicki
simile • Example: it had so much fur it look like a bare. • Uses like or as to compare 2 unlike things
hyperbole • I’m so cold it feels like I am a ice cube Extreme exaggeration
Alliteration The bee buzz by light bulbs The same letter in a senates more than 3 times
Metaphor • She was the flag with the color she ware Comparing to unlike things without using like or as
personification • The leaves tangoed in the wind • Non human things doing human traits
onomatopoeia • The Mac mad a smashing sound as it hit the ground • Actual sound of something are words of onomatopeia
idiom • You hire it, you fire it • Don’t mean what it exactly says
understatement • I’ll be there in a min • Expression with less strength than expected