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What is figurative language?

Metaphor

Types of Figurative Language

A figure of speech that describes one

thing as something else.

  • Alliteration
  • Assonance
  • Hyperbole
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Metaphor
  • Simile
  • Personification
  • "He is a shining star."
  • "Your bedroom is a pigsty."
  • "You are my sunshine."

Personification

When a thing or an animal acts like a person.

Simile

A figure of speech that compares two things, using the words "like" or "as", that are not normally alike.

  • "It's as easy as 123."
  • "She swims like a fish."
  • "His heart is as cold as ice."
  • "The truck is as big as an elephant."

Figurative Language

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.4

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