Imagery • Sight • Hearing • Touch • Taste • Smell Language that appeals to the senses. Descriptions of people or objects stated in terms of our senses. • Sight • Hearing • Touch • Taste • Smell

The eerie silence was shattered by her scream. The pot was a red as a tongue after eating a cherry flavored ring pop.

hyperbole idiom Figurative Language simile assonance personification metaphor idiom alliteration onomatopoeia

comparing it with something Simile: a way of describing something by comparing it with something else using "like" or "as"

I am hungry as a horse. You run like a rabbit. She is happy as a clam.                                                                                                                                                                                                     She is happy as a clam. He is sneaky as a snake.

something by comparing it Metaphor: a way of describing something by comparing it to something else

The girl was a fish in the water. The clown was a feather floating away.

Personification to compare something that is not human as if it had human characteristics

The flowers danced in the wind.                                                              The friendly gates welcomed us. The Earth coughed and choked in all of the pollution.

Alliteration: repetition of the first consonant

Stan the strong surfer saved several swimmers on Saturday.                                                              Tiny Tommy Thomson takes toy trucks to Timmy’s on Tuesday. Click here to read more alliterations.

vowel sounds (Doesn't have to rhyme!!) Assonance: the repetition of internal vowel sounds (Doesn't have to rhyme!!)

Princess Kitty will kiss Timmy T. Tippers’s lips                                                                                                               Princess Kitty will kiss Timmy T. Tippers’s lips The pain may drain Drake, but maybe the weight is fake.

Onomatopoeia: words that are sounds

Yeeeeee Ahhhhhhhh Swish swish swish Chug chug chug!!                                                 Swish swish swish Chug chug chug!! Glippp Gluppp Gluppp

Hyperbole: an exaggerated statement

She’s said so on several million occasions. I am so hungry I could eat a horse. I had to walk 15 miles to school in the snow, uphill.

Idiom: a group of words whose meanings are different from the ordinary meanings of the words (make little sense, but people use them often so they take on a meaning of their own)

piece of cake He’s under the weather. I have butterflies in my stomach.