Figurative Language 🗣
Alliteration :Alliteration is when words that start with the same sound are used close together in a phrase or sentence.
Example:Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers
Allusion:an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly
Example: He's a real Romeo with the ladies.
Metaphor: A metaphor is a word or phrase that is used to make a comparison between two people, things, animals, or places
Example:Â Its raining cats and dogs
Simile:A simile is a figure of speech that compares two things or persons which are not similar.It often uses "like" or "as"
Example:She's as tall as a giraffe
Personification:Â personification is when you give human qualities to an object or animal.
Example:The leaves danced their way through the lawn.
Hyperbole:Hyperbole is when you use language to exaggerate what you mean or emphasize a point.
Example:This car goes faster than the speed of light.
Idiom:Â an idiom is a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words
Example: Two heads are much better than one
