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Figurative Language

This document discusses various figures of speech used in writing. It defines similes, metaphors, and personification as figures of speech that create imagery by comparing two things. Examples are provided for each figure including similes that use "like" or "as", metaphors that make comparisons without those words, and personification that gives human traits to non-human things. Other figures of speech discussed briefly include hyperbole, apostrophe, repetition through anaphora and alliteration, and onomatopoeia that represents actual sounds.

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Figurative Language

This document discusses various figures of speech used in writing. It defines similes, metaphors, and personification as figures of speech that create imagery by comparing two things. Examples are provided for each figure including similes that use "like" or "as", metaphors that make comparisons without those words, and personification that gives human traits to non-human things. Other figures of speech discussed briefly include hyperbole, apostrophe, repetition through anaphora and alliteration, and onomatopoeia that represents actual sounds.

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FIGURATI

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LANGUA
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Figures of Speech
✗ Figures of speech are tools that
writers use to create images, or
“paint pictures,” in your mind.
✗ Similes, metaphors, and
personification are three figures
of speech that create imagery.

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Simile
✗ A simile compares two
things using the words
“like” or “as.”
✗ Comparing one thing to
another creates a vivid
The runner streaked like a
image. cheetah.

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Flint
An emerald is as green as grass,
A ruby red as blood;
A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;
A flint lies in the mud.
A diamond is a brilliant stone,
To catch the world’s desire;
An opal holds a fiery spark;
But a flint holds fire.
By Christina Rosetti

Simile Example
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Metaphor
✗ A metaphor compares two
things without using the
words “like” or “as.”
✗ Gives the qualities of one
thing to something that is
quite different. The winter wind is a wolf
howling at the door.

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The Night is a Big Black Cat

The Night is a big black cat


The moon is her topaz eye,
The stars are the mice she hunts at
night,
In the field of the sultry sky.

By G. Orr Clark

Metaphor Example
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Personification
✗ Personification gives
human traits and
feelings to things that
are not human – like
animals or objects. The moon smiled down at me.

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From “Mister Sun”

Mister Sun
Wakes up at dawn,
Puts his golden
Slippers on,
Climbs the summer
Sky at noon,
Trading places
With the moon.
by J. Patrick Lewis

Personification Example
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HYPERBOLE
- an exaggeration used for artistic
affect
APOSTROPHE
- addressing of a usually absent
person or a usually personified thing
rhetorically

Other figure of speech


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Anaphora / Repetition
✗Repetition occurs when poets
repeat words, phrases, or lines
in a poem.
✗Creates a pattern.
✗Increases rhythm.
✗Strengthens feelings, ideas and
mood in a poem.
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The Sun
Some one tossed a pancake,
A buttery, buttery, pancake.
Someone tossed a pancake
And flipped it up so high,
That now I see the pancake,
The buttery, buttery pancake,
Now I see that pancake
Stuck against the sky.
by Sandra Liatsos

Repetition Example
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Alliteration
✗Alliteration is the repetition of
the first consonant sound in
words, as in the nursery
rhyme “Peter Piper picked a
peck of pickled peppers.” The snake slithered silently along
the sunny sidewalk.

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This Tooth
I jiggled it
jaggled it
jerked it.
I pushed
and pulled
and poked it.
But –
As soon as I stopped,
And left it alone
This tooth came out
On its very own!
by Lee Bennett Hopkins

Alliteration Example
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Onomatopoeia
✗ Words that represent the
actual sound of something are
words of onomatopoeia.
Dogs “bark,” cats “purr,”
thunder “booms,” rain
“drips,” and the clock “ticks.”
✗ Appeals to the sense of sound.

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Listen
Scrunch, scrunch, scrunch.
Crunch, crunch, crunch.
Frozen snow and brittle ice
Make a winter sound that’s nice
Underneath my stamping feet
And the cars along the street.
Scrunch, scrunch, scrunch.
Crunch, crunch, crunch.
by Margaret Hillert

Onomatopoeia Example
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