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Figlang and Sensory Detials NEW
Figlang and Sensory Detials NEW
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Figurative language
Figurative language is a word or phrase that departs from everyday literal language for the sake of comparison, emphasis, clarity, or freshness.
Simile
A simile uses the words like or as to compare one object or idea with another to suggest they are alike.
Example: she is as busy as a bee. Write your own simile.
I am hungry as a horse.
He is sneaky as a snake.
Metaphor
A figure of speech comparing two unlike things without using like or as.
She is a work horse! Write your own metaphor.
Hyperbole
An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally.
Example: I was so thirsty, I could have drank the ocean!
Idiom
A natural manner of speaking to a native speaker of a language. Its raining cats and dogs. Write your own example
Onomatopoeia
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named Example: boom, sizzle
Write your own onomatopoeia.
Yeeeeee Ahhhhhhhh
Personification
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman.
Example: The chair screamed when I sat in it! Write your own example:
Alliteration
refers to the repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of a series of words or phrases
Example: Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
Use either sensory details or figurative language to write a sentence about the following pictures..