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figures of speech
- 1. Figurative Language metaphor Alliteration personification simile assonance onomatopoeia
- 2. Simile: a way of describing something by comparing it with something else using "like" or "as"
- 3. I am hungry as a horse. You run like a rabbit. He is sneaky as a snake. She is happy as a clam.
- 4. Metaphor: A way of describing something by comparing it to something else
- 5. The girl was a fish in the water. The clown was a feather floating away.
- 6. Personification to compare something that is not human as if it had human characteristics
- 7. The flowers danced in the wind. The Earth coughed and choked in all of the pollution. The friendly gates welcomed us.
- 8. Alliteration: Repetition of the first consonant
- 9. Stan the strong surfer saved several swimmers on Saturday. Tiny Tommy Thomson takes toy trucks to Timmy’s on Tuesday. Click here to read more alliterations.
- 10. Assonance: The repetition of internal vowel sounds. Doesn't have to rhyme!!
- 11. Onomatopoeia: Words that are sounds
- 12. Princess Kitty will kiss Timmy T. Tippers’s lips The pain may drain Drake, but maybe the weight is fake.
- 13. Chug chug chug!! Swish swish swish Yeeeeee Ahhhhhhhh Glippp Gluppp Gluppp
- 14. Now you try!!