Figurative Language

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Figurative Language

• Simile and Personification

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Simile

• Comparing two unlike objects using the words LIKE
  or AS
• The sun appeared over the horizon like a giant
  firefly.

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More Examples

• The dentists teeth are as white as newly
  polished pearls.
• The coffee smelled burnt and it was as thick as
  tar.
• The tiny kitten hissed like an angry rattlesnake!

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Flint by Christina Rossetti

• An emerald is as green as grass,
• A ruby red as blood
• A sapphire shines as blue as heaven
• A flint lies in the mud.
• A diamond is a brilliant stone,
• To catch the world's desire
• An opal holds a fiery spark
• But a flint holds fire.

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Personification

• Giving human qualities to an object, idea, or
  animal.

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For example

• The flame danced in the wind.
• Late last night, as I was falling asleep, the
  moon smiled at me.
• After the dog finished eating the few scraps of
  food thrown out on the street for him, he quietly
  thanked the doorman for showing a little mercy.

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November Day by Eleanor Averitt

• Old haggard wind has
• plucked the trees
• Like pheasants, held
• between her knees.
• In rows she hangs them,
• bare and neat,
• Their brilliant plumage at
• her feet.