1. 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

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

3. hyperbole idiom Figurative Language simile assonance personification
metaphor
idiom
alliteration
onomatopoeia

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

10. Alliteration:
repetition
of the
first
consonant

11. Stan the strong surfer saved several swimmers on Saturday.
                                                            
Tiny Tommy Thomson takes toy trucks to Timmy’s on Tuesday.
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12. vowel sounds (Doesn't have to rhyme!!)
Assonance:
the repetition
of internal
vowel sounds (Doesn't have to rhyme!!)

13. 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.

14. Onomatopoeia:
words that are
sounds

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

16. Hyperbole: an exaggerated statement

17. 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.

18. 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)

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