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Exploring Literary Devices: Figurative Language Examples

Enhance your understanding of figurative language with examples of common literary devices such as personification, alliteration, assonance, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, metaphor, simile, and imagery. Discover how these techniques bring life and depth to writing, from comparing the mind to an ocean to creating vivid sensory experiences.

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Exploring Literary Devices: Figurative Language Examples

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  1. Figurative Language Madison Kift

  2. Personification • An animal given like qualities or an object given life like qualities • The boat bugged the shore

  3. Alliteration • Consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words • Sally seems to sit somewhere separate from Sonia.

  4. Assonance • Repeated vowel sounds in a line or lines in poetry. • Keeps sounding the same

  5. Hyperbole • Exaggeration used for emphasis. • Million times harder

  6. Onomatopoeia • Words that imitate sounds they are meaning. • Buzz or a Ding or a Hiss or a Roar.

  7. Metaphor • A direct comparison of 2 unlike things • Mind is an ocean

  8. Simile • Using a comparison using “like” or “as” • Smooth as jazz

  9. Imagery • Most Images are visual, but they can also appeal to the senses of sound, touch, taste, or smell. • sight- the rose is bright red.

  10. Idiom • An expression where the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression it means something other than what it actually says. • Fades are the kiss of death.

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