Figurative Language

The fountain tossed its water, / Up and up, like silver marbles.

Both metaphors and similes use "like" or "as" for a comparison

Gracefully she sat down sideways, / With a simper smile

His sorrow goes / Like mountain snows / In waters sweet and clear,

Here is the smell of blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.

The fountain tossed its water, / Up and up, like silver marbles.

This device is very similar to exaggeration:a. Hyperbole

Drip—hiss—drip—hiss— fall the raindrops.

The tear-drop trickled to his chin: / There was a meaning in her grin

There’s a patch of old snow in a corner.

Death lays his icy hands on kings.

The primary reason authors use metaphors or similes is to show how two things are similar:

My love is like a red, red rose.

All night long with rush and lull / The rain kept drumming on the roof:

Which of the following is an example of alliteration?

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.

The saying, "It was raining cats and dogs" would be an example of which figurative language?

Man proposes, God disposes

“I’m so hungry I can eat a horse.”

I so loved reading I was willing to walk 15 miles to the library in the snow, uphill.