FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE REVIEW (Mini-Lesson Before Revision Activity)

SIMILE: a comparison between two things using the words like or as

METAPHOR: a comparison between two things without using the words like or as

EMOTION

ANGER

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SIMILE

METAPHOR

My anger is like a pot of

boiling water that gets hotter
each second.

Anger is a pot of boiling water,

whose heat overtakes my body.

My anger is as hot as a pot of

boiling water.
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I am as happy as the sun

shining on a rainy day.

I am the sun shining on a rainy day.

My disappointment is like a
dark cloud on a rainy day.

My disappointment is a dark cloud

on a rainy day.

JOY

HUMOR OR
DISAPPOINT
MENT

PERSONIFICATION: giving an inanimate object human traits

PERSONIFICATION
EXAMPLE

WHAT IT MEANS

What object is being

personified?

My computer hates me.

My computer keeps messing up.

Computer

The camera loves me.

I take good pictures.

Using List A and List B, create 3 sentences using Personification:

1.

2.

3.

camera