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Figurative Language Exemplars

Figurative Language Exemplars. Simile. A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common. Simile . She is as sly as a fox. Simile. He was as tough as a bull. Simile. Her eyes twinkle like the stars.

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Figurative Language Exemplars

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  1. Figurative Language Exemplars

  2. Simile • A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common.

  3. Simile • She is as sly as a fox.

  4. Simile • He was as tough as a bull.

  5. Simile • Her eyes twinkle like the stars.

  6. Simile • He is as smart as an owl.

  7. Simile • She was as busy as a bee.

  8. Simile • He runs like a cheetah.

  9. Metaphor • An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.

  10. Metaphor • Love is a rose.

  11. Metaphor • Life is a journey.

  12. Metaphor • Be careful, it is a jungle out there.

  13. Metaphor • Death is a thief.

  14. Metaphor • Her brain is a sponge.

  15. Metaphor • The lake was a huge mirror in the moonlight.

  16. Personification • A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities.

  17. Personification • The wind whispered through the dark gloomy forest.

  18. Personification • The gardener lovingly added the manure to his crops believing he was making happy flowers.

  19. Personification • As we walked through the scorching desert, the sun beat down on us.

  20. Personification • Time crawled as Tim sat in the hot detention room painfully watching the clock tic.

  21. Personification • The lumberjack leveled the many trees into a clearing and his chainsaw sang its deadly song.

  22. Personification • When Monica walked through the shoe store, each shiny pair of high heels called out to her.

  23. Idiom • An expression that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words.

  24. Idiom • It’s raining cats and dogs.

  25. Idiom • I’m feeling under the weather.

  26. Idiom • It’s not worth spilling milk over.

  27. Idiom • Getting the correct books home to do your homework is half the battle.

  28. Idiom • That test was a piece of cake.

  29. Idiom • The band’s performance brought the house down.

  30. Hyperbole • an obvious and intentional exaggeration

  31. Hyperbole • It was as big as a house.

  32. Hyperbole • Drew runs faster than a speeding bullet.

  33. Hyperbole • Our hallway was about a mile long.

  34. Hyperbole • The smell of our cafeteria’s cinnamon rolls could be smelled in the next county.

  35. Hyperbole • We had about a century’s worth of homework last night.

  36. Hyperbole • Her backpack weighed about a ton.

  37. Alliteration • - is the repetition of an initial consonant sound.

  38. Alliteration • As cunning as a crocodile.

  39. Alliteration • The wind whispered through the willow trees.

  40. Alliteration • Tony the Tiger says ‘They’re Great’!

  41. Alliteration • Good men are gruff and grumpy, cranky, crabbed, and cross.

  42. Alliteration • The soul selects her own society.

  43. Alliteration • Joey felt jumpy and jittery.

  44. Onomatopoeia • - word that sounds like the object it is describing. 

  45. Onomatopoeia • Buzz

  46. Onomatopoeia • Bang

  47. Onomatopoeia • Crunch

  48. Onomatopoeia • Pow

  49. Onomatopoeia • Zoom

  50. Onomatopoeia • Wham

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