FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE Take notes on your sheet

METAPHOR Comparing two things without using “like” or “as” Example: Emily is a rose ELVIS: You ain’t nothing but a hound dog AC/DC: She was a fast machine Goo Goo Dolls: You’re the closest to Heaven I’ll ever be

Coffee house, much??

SIMILE Comparing two things using “like” or “as” Example: She is as quiet as a mouse Michael Jackson: She was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene Pink Floyd: There’s a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky

PERSONIFICATION Giving human-like qualities to objects or things that aren’t alive. Example: The moon smiled down at me. Saves the Day: As I'm talking my words slip to the floor and they crawl through your legs and slide under the back door

IDIOM Expression we use every day that aren’t meant to be taken literally Examples: –Boy, it’s raining cats and dogs! –He’s feeling under the weather –That test was a piece of cake –I’ll give him a taste of his own medicine

ONOMATOPOEIA When the word is spelled the way it sounds –Example: sploosh, ker-pow, bam! –Most Black Eyed Peas Songs How the beat bang, Boom Boom Pow “Like a G6 – Slizzard”

ALLITERATION When the beginning of many words in a row sound the same –The purple and pink pig put pennies in the pool –Better be a better boy before you bother betting that you'll bring her back home again.

HYPERBOLE A big exaggeration I’d walk a million miles to get to you by Vanessa Carlton

IRONY Saying one thing but meaning another –Sarcasm –When deaf Ludwig Beethoven published another great symphony.

FORESHADOWING Giving hints of something that’s about to happen I was about to walk around the corner when I heard a loud scream (what’s he going to see when he turns the corner?!)

IMAGERY Painting a picture using words The dog barked vs. As the sun was setting, the fluffy dog cried aloud into the deep hollows of the house ** 5 senses Three Doors Down: I left my body lying somewhere in the universe in the sands of time.

Oxymoron Combination of words that seem contradictory Examples: Jumbo shrimp, living dead, deafening silence, bitter sweet, serious joke