Figurative Language

Daysi Moya

Personification

• An Animal given human-like qualities or an object given life-like qualities.

• Feeling action or characteristics

Alliteration

• Constant sounds repeated at the beginning of words.

• Caleb calls Chris cause he’s coming to California.

Assonance

• Repeated vowel sounds in a line or lines of poetry.

• Keeps sounding the same

hyperbole

• Exaggeration often used for emphasis• Take something true then exaggerate it way

farther.

Onomatopoeia

• Words that imitate the sound they are naming.

• A buzz or a ding or a hiss or a roar

Metaphor

• A direct comparison of two unlike things.• Got to leave like or as out

Simile

• A comparison of two things using like or as• My mind is like an ocean

Imagery

• Most images are visual but they can also appeal to the sense of sound, touch, taste, or smell

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