1. Figurative Language
Ms. Newberry
English

2. Hyperbole Examples: His feet are as big as boats.
Hyperbole is an exaggeration.
Examples:
His feet are as big as boats.
Your mother is so fat she sat on a rainbow and skittles popped out.

3. More Examples: I tried calling you a million times.
It’s raining cats and dogs.
I nearly died laughing.
The pavement was so hot our feet fried.

4. Personification
Personification is where a writer often makes their stories or poems more interesting by having an animal or an object speak or act as if it were a person.
Ex: The sofa wept under the weight of all the people.
(A sofa cannot actually weep or cry.)

5. More Examples: The ancient car groaned into third gear.
The cloud scattered rain throughout the city.
The leaf danced as it fell from the tree.

6. Simile
A simile is a comparison using like or as. It usually compares two objects that are not similar.
Ex: She is as quiet as a mouse.

7. More Examples: When I am tired, I am like a bear in hibernation.
I am as mad as a hornet.
I am floating on air like a balloon because I am so happy.

8. Metaphors
A metaphor states that one thing is something else. It is a comparison, but it does NOT use like or as to make the comparison.
Ex: Her hair is silk.
The sentence is comparing (or stating) that hair is silk.

9. More Examples: Ted is a nervous cat. Those two are peas in a pod.
My hands are ice cubes.

10. Alliteration Alliteration is a constant rhyme. For instance:
Dirty dreaming dogs dizzily drunkenly destroy damp dreary dinosaurs down disgustingly damp dungeons during dismal December days.

11. More Examples: Bertha Bartholomew blew big blue bubbles.
She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
Vicky Vic viewed a very valuable vase.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

12. Is it alliteration, metaphor, simile, personification, or hyperbole?
The window moaned as it opened.
John is a sly cat.
Norris Newton never needed new noodles.
He was so tall, his head touched the clouds.
He shook when he laughed like a bowl full of jelly.