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Exploring Figurative Language in Writing

Learn about and understand different types of figurative language like simile, hyperbole, alliteration, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, idioms, and understatement. Explore examples and enhance your writing skills.

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Exploring Figurative Language in Writing

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  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

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