Figurative Language Flipbook

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Figurative Language Flipbook

• First Name Last Name
• Class Period

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SIMILE

• A comparison between two unlike things using like
  or as to show a shared quality or trait.
• Ex. The cotton was as soft as a cloud.
• Your Example

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METAPHOR

• A direct comparison of two things without using
  like or as.
• Ex. She is ice.
• Ex. He is a lion on the football field.
• Your Example

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PERSONIFICATION

• Giving human qualities to an animal, object, or
  idea.
• Ex. The leaves danced on the trees.
• Ex. The wind whispered in my ear.
• Your Example

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ALLITERATION

• The repetition of initial (beginning) consonant
  sounds. It provides emphasis.
• Ex. The day of his death was a dark, cold day.
• Ex. Peter Piper picked a pepper
• Your Example

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Allusion

• A reference to a famous person, work, event, idea
  or text to help readers understand meaning.
• Ex When my best friend and I go to the midnight
  showings of Twilight, we act like teenage girls
  at a Justin Bieber concert!

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Oxymoron

• Combines 2 normally contradictory terms.
• Ex Deafening silence
• Icy Hot
• Jumbo shrimp
• Act naturally
• Terribly pleased

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ONOMATOPOEIA

• Words that sound like what they mean.
• Ex. bang, boom, sizzle, crash, ring, beep, honk,
  buzz, oink, swish
• Your Example

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THEME

• The central message or life lesson in a work of
  fiction.
• Example The theme in The Three Little Pigs is
  to do something right the first time and be
  prepared.
• My example

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SYMBOLISM

• An object that represents an idea or emotion.
• Example wedding ring commitment/love
• My example

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MOOD

• The readers emotional response to a text mood
  is created through the readers word choice.
• My example The mood of Charlottes Web in the
  scene where Charlotte dies is heartbreaking.
• My example

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TONE

• The authors or speakers attitude towards the
  subject he is writing about identified through
  his word choice.
• Example The tone of Earrings is one of
  frustration.
• My example

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DICTION

• The word choice used by an author to create a
  specific meaning and for a specific audience.
• Example I want them. I need them. I love them.
  Beautiful earrings. Glorious earrings.
• My example

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HYPERBOLE (8th grade)

• An overstatement or exaggeration without the
  intention of lying.
• Ex. You could knock me over with a feather!
• Ex. Im so hungry I could eat a horse!
• Your Example

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CONSONANCE (8th grade)

• The repetition of two or more consonants at the
  end of a word or in the middle of words.
• Ex. as in guys she gently sways at ease
• Ex. I think in a blink I will wink and it will
  cause a stink.

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ASSONANCE (8th grade)

• The repetition of vowel sounds to create internal
  rhyming.
• Ex. Hear the mellow wedding bells.
• Ex. The crumbling thunder of seas.
• Your Example