1. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
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2. Figurative Language v.s. Literal Language
What’s the Difference??

3. Language that means exactly what it says.
Figurative Language
Language that does NOT mean exactly what it says.
Literal Language
Language that means exactly what it says.

4. HYPERBOLE
A deliberate exaggeration…often used for effect.

5. I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!
Hyperbole
Making a point by exaggerating or using an overstatement or magnification of something.
I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!

6. SIMILE A comparison of two dissimilar things using “like” or “as”
Example…”The test was as easy as pie!.”

7. METAPHOR
Comparison of two dissimilar things WITHOUT using “like” or “as” in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else.
Example…Life is a broken winged bird.

8. ALLITERATION The repetition of the initial consonant sound
Example…Fourteen foul fungi

9. PERSONIFICATION
Giving a nonhuman subject some sort of human characteristic
Example…The house was lonely after the people moved out.

10. Personification
Giving human characteristics or qualities to ideas or things.
The darkness devoured me.
The wind screamed through the house.
The trees waved in the storm.
The ocean whispers sweet melodies in my ear.

11. ONOMATOPOEIA Use of words to imitate sounds
Example…whirrrrr, buzzzzz, hiss

12. Onomatopoeia
the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (as buzz, hiss)

13. Allusion
A reference to a person, place, or thing in another artistic work (literature, art, music, history, painting, or mythology).
Example: Paul’s obsession with money reminds me of King Midas.