Figurative Language - Enrichment

Comparing to unlike things using "like" or "as"

Figurative Language is...

Mrs. Westphal's beauty and grace puts Cleopatra's to waste.

Mrs. Westphal is as cute as a kitten.

A  mix of unpleasant sounds

Having a concrete object that is meant to represent an abstract idea or larger concept

A wise, old saying

Mrs. Wolter's mouth watered and her eyes glistened at first sight of the Starbucks sign.

Comparing two unlike things without using "like" or "as"

Words that paint a picture in reader's mind

A reference to a well-known person, place or event

swish, swoop, bloop!

Metaphors, Similes, Onomatopoeias, etc. are examples of...

The stars danced playfully in the moonlit skies.

It's raining cats and dogs.

An exaggeration

A word whose sound suggests its meaning

The sound of firetruck sirens going past marching band practice next to the hyena cages.

Giving human traits to unhuman objects

The repetition of initial sounds in words close together

A stitch in time saves nine.

Mrs. Wolter's and Mrs. Westphal's singing voices are like angels' voices among heaven's choirs.

Westphal and Wolter walloped Watters in a wicked game of wolleyball.

A saying that does not make literal or logical sense, and people in culture understand it