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This document provides a cheat sheet on common forms of figurative language including similes, metaphors, hyperboles, personification, alliteration, assonance, and idioms. It defines each form and provides an example to illustrate how it is used. Learners are prompted to provide their own examples for each term. The cheat sheet is intended to help the reader identify and understand different types of figurative language.

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1 Figurative Language Cheat Sheet

This document provides a cheat sheet on common forms of figurative language including similes, metaphors, hyperboles, personification, alliteration, assonance, and idioms. It defines each form and provides an example to illustrate how it is used. Learners are prompted to provide their own examples for each term. The cheat sheet is intended to help the reader identify and understand different types of figurative language.

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Deborah Bowers
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Figurative Language
Cheat Sheet
Simile Metaphor Hyperbole
a comparison using like or as a direct comparison an extreme exaggeration
Example: He is as tall as a giraffe. Example: The snow is a white blanket. Example: The car is faster than the
Your Example: Your Example: speed of light!
Your Example:

Personification Alliteration Assonance


giving human traits to nonhuman repetition of initial consonant repetition of vowel sounds in two
objects sounds or more words close together
Example: The sun smiled at me. Example: She is calm, cool, and collected. Example: “Hear the mellow wedding
Your Example: Your Example: bells.” – Edgar Allan Poe
Your Example:

Idiom
a phrase that has both a figurative and literal meaning
Examples: butterflies in my stomach, raining cats and dogs, couch potato
Your Example:

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