Figurative and Connotative Language

Figurative and Connotative Language

Onomatopoeia

An overused phrase orsaying

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Cliche

Words that are sounds.

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Figurative Language

Imagery

When an author uses one of the five senses (taste, touch, sight, sound, or smell), in a word or phrase to create a mental picture of something in your mind. It helps the reader physically experience what is going on in the story.

Connotative Language

Language that includes figures of speech, or that compares two or more things.Writers use figurative language such as imagery, similes, and metaphors to help the reader visualize and experience events and emotions in a story.

The emotional or imaginative association surrounding a word

Personification

Metaphor

To give human characteristics to a non-human thing.

Usually has a positive and negative side

Simile

Describing something by

saying IT IS something else.

A type of figurative language that

compares two things using the words

"like" or "as."