1. Figurative Language
Figurative language is the words and phrases authors use to stir the imagination and create word pictures that appeal to the senses.

2. Imagery
Imagery—the words or phrases a writer uses to create a certain picture in the reader’s mind. Imagery is usually based on sensory details. (See, Smell, Touch, Taste, Hear)

3. Imagery The sweet scent of vanilla had met us as she opened the door.
For the wood was full of light. It was green and amber and alive, quivering in splotches on the padded ground.

4. Alliteration
…the use of the same sound or letter usually at the beginning of words in a sentence or poem.
The sparkling sun glanced off the silver sea.
That rascal of a raccoon ripped my raincoat!

5. Alliteration
The whirling whistling winter wind warms me in a wonderful way.
Hungry Harry’s hand hovered over a huge __________.
The bouncing baby _________.

6. Hyperbole
Hyperbole is exaggerated language. The prefix hyper- means excessive or more than necessary.
Hyperbole is a super-duper exaggeration.

7. Hyperbole Thanks a million! I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!
He talks a mile a minute!
You’re the greatest!

8. Hyperbole Look, I said no a million times, so please don’t ask again.
It’s going to take a year to straighten out this confusion.
That mountain touches the sky.
He’s so strong he can pick up a refrigerator with his little finger.

9. Personification
Personification gives an animal or object the characteristics or abilities of a person.

10. Personification Clouds swam in an ocean of air, floating.
The wind in the pines whispered softly.
The windblown leaves raced me home.
The fire danced in the open fireplace.

11. Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia means making or using words that recreate a sound.
Ex. buzz, boom, vroom

12. Onomatopoeia The hiss of the snake was the first sign of danger.
I heard the clip clop of horses as they trotted past.
Did you hear the cow say, “Moo?”

13. Simile
A simile compares two unlike things using the words, like or as.

14. Simile Catarina’s hair is as soft as silk.
The dancer floats like a feather.
My brother is as grumpy as a bear in the morning.
You eat like a pig.
Your room looks like a pigpen.

15. Metaphor
A metaphor compares two unlike things without using like or as.

16. Metaphor You are a pig. Your room is a pigpen. You are a nut.
That football player is a tank!

17. Idiom
A colorful way of saying something- does not mean exactly what it says

18. Idiom It’s raining cats and dogs!
Georgio won the race by the skin of his teeth.
I realized I had really put my foot in my mouth.