Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally

*Figurative Language

*Idiom

*EX. It’s raining cats and dogs.

*You are driving me up a wall.

An exaggeration that, taken literally, means something else.

*Imagery

*EX. The sparkling snowflakes floated silently down from the heavens to rest on everything creating a crisp blanket of glistening white.

Descriptive language. Five senses. Create vivid mental pictures.

*Metaphor

*EX. The mother was a lioness protecting her children.

*Jimmy is a pig, his room is very messy.

*.Comparing two things, without using “like” or “as.”

*Simile

*EX. Her eyes twinkle like stars.

*He was as tall as a giraffe.

A comparison between two things using the words “like” or “as”.

*Onomatopoeia

*EX. Buzz

*Ex. Tick Tock

*Ex. Whoosh

*Ex. Boom

*Ex. SplashA word that describes a sound.

*Personification

*EX. The wind whistled. * Ex. The tree danced in

the wind.

Giving human qualities to non-human things

*Hyperbole*EX. It’s taking forever!

*Ex. I called you a million times last night.

Extreme exaggeration.

*Alliteration

*EX. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words.