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Purple Team Rocks!
Types of Figurative Language
•Adages and Proverbs
•Alliteration
•Dialect
•Hyperbole
•Idiom
•Imagery
•Metaphor
•Mood
•Onomatopoeia
•Personification
•Simile
Adages and proverbssayings that reflect
wisdom and truth and are
based upon generations of
experience. Ex. “Where there is
smoke, there is fire.” “Don’t cry
wolf.”
Alliteration- The repetition
of the same initial consonant
letter or sound. Ex. She sells
sea shells by the seashore.
Dialect-a particular form of a
language that is characteristic of a
specific region or group of people.
Ex. Marty Preston
speaks in a southern dialect.
(Pa don’t know nothin’
about dogs.)
Hyperbole- extreme
exaggeration; an
overstatement that is
usually unbelievable and
humorous Ex. I'm so hungry I
could eat a horse.
Idiom- a figure of
speech where the words
mean something other
than what they literally
say Ex. It’s raining cats
and dogs.
Imagery- words that
appeal to the reader’s
senses of sight, smell,
sound, taste, and touch
Ex. The big, slippery trout plunged
silently back into the river.
Metaphor- a comparison of
two unlike objects and
states a fact or draws a
verbal picture by the use of
comparison. Ex. He is a
bull on the football
field.
Mood- is the atmosphere
or the emotion a piece of
writing arouses in a
reader. Ex.The story,
Miss Alaineus,
made me laugh.
Simile- a comparison of
two unlike objects using
the words “like” or “as.”
Ex. Her brown eyes were like
pools of dark chocolate.