Figurative Language and Sound Devices

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Figurative Language and Sound Devices

• 8th grade language arts

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SIMILE

• A direct comparison between two basically
  different things. A simile is introduced by the
  words like or as.

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SIMILE

• My love is like a red, red rose.

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METAPHOR

• An implied comparison between two basically
  different things and is not introduced with the
  words like or as.

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METAPHOR

• The eyes were daggers that cut right through me.

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HYPERBOLE

• A great exaggeration to emphasize strong feeling.

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Hyperbole

• He was so hungry he could have eaten a horse.

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HYPERBOLE

• I will love you until all the seas go dry.

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PERSONIFICATION

• Human characteristics are given to non-human
  animals, objects, or ideas.

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PERSONIFICATION

• My stereo walked out of my car.

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IMAGERY

• The use of sensory details that appeal to the
  five senses.

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IMAGERY

• Cold, wet leaves floating on moss-colored water.

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Onomatopeia

• A figure of speech which suggests or imitates the
  sound of what it describes.

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Onomatopeia

• Boom!
• Crash!

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Oxymoron

• A pair of words consisting of two seemingly
  contradictory terms.

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Oxymoron
Jumbo Shrimp
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REPETITION

• The repeating of a sound, word, phrase, or more
  in a given literary work.

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REPETITION

• I sprang to the stirrup, and Jarvis, and he
• I galloped, Derrick galloped, we galloped all
  three

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ALLITERATION

• The repetition of consonant sounds at the
  beginnings of words.

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ALLITERATION

• Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship
• . . .that hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know
  not me.

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CONSONANCE

• The repetition of consonant sounds that are
  preceded by different vowel sounds. The
  consonants are not at the beginning of the word.

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CONSONANCE

• Wherever we go
• Silence will fall like dews