1. Figurative language By: Devin Mariannino

2. Simile • Uses like or as to compare 2 unlike things. • Ex. He was like a hawk when he was hunting

3. Hyperbole • Exaggerating to show strong feeling or effect • I love you past the sky and back.

4. Alliteration • The repetition of the first consonant sound in words • How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?

5. Metaphore • Two things being compared without like or as • Tatums head is a rock

6. Personifaction • Giving human traits to nonhuman things • The trees are dancing in the rain

7. Onomatopoeia • Words that represent the actual sounds of something • The rabit ate a carote that went BOOM

8. Idioms • Expressions that don’t mean whet they say • Its raining cars and trucks

9. Understatment • Expression with less strength than expected • This will hurta HOLE lot