Name ______
Figurative Language
Alliteration: The repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of two or more words
· Sentence: The slow sinking in her heart stole away all her joy.
Hyperbole: extravagant exaggeration
· Sentence: All the world’s books would not be enough to satisfy my desire for knowledge and information.
Imagery: Describing how something looks, sounds, smells, tastes, or feels
· Sentence: The dusty, sweat-stained cowboy hat smelled of earth and dry tumble weed.
Metaphor: comparing two unlike things (saying one thing is another thing)
· Sentence: Her arms were mighty claws refusing to release me from their crushing grip.
Personification: giving human characteristics, traits, or actions to nonhuman things
· Sentence: The soft light gently yet insistently pushed the darkness from the sky.
Simile: Comparing two unlike things using the word like or as
· Sentence: The peppery salsa mix was as fiery as a raging inferno.
Symbolism: something represents something else
· Sentence: Katniss symbolizes courage and sacrificial love.