2. Figurative Language

3. What is Figurative Language ? Figurative language is imaginative language that is not meant to be interpreted literally

4. Alliteration Lovely little limes landed lightly on Lindsey’s lips. The grouchy gray goose gawked at the goofy gander. Lovely little limes landed lightly on Lindsey’s lips. The grouchy gray goose gawked at the goofy gander. repetition of initial consonant sounds

5. Simile figure of speech that compares two unlike things using “like” or “as” The moss was as wet and cool as a dog’s nose. The football center squats like a frog.

6. What word sounds like this? hiss," "rattle," "bang" Onomatopoeia the use of words that imitate sounds boing! What word sounds like this? baa

7. Personification The early morning sun winked through the leaves. a type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics The early morning sun winked through the leaves.

8. Metaphor a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily describes one thing is used to represent another His face was a mask of horror and pain.

9. Hyperbole a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or a humorous effect “It was about a zillion degrees below zero.”

10. Idiom A figure of speech that cannot be defined literally “under the weather”

11. Symbol an object, person, or place that stands for something else A rose might represent_____.

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