Figurative Language

Figurative Language
* Simile is a figure of speech in which one thing is explicitly compared to another using the words "like" or "as" to show how they are similar.
(Example: "His cheekswere like roses; his nose like a cherry.../And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow." - Clemment Clark Moore)
* Metaphor is figure of speech in which two "essentially unlike things" are shownto have a type of resemblance or create a new image. The similarities between the objects being compared may be implied rather than directly stated.
(Example: "Fog comes on little cat feet" - RobertFrost)
* Onomatopoeia is a word designed to be an imitation of a sound.
(Example: “Bark! Bark!” went the dog as he chased the car that vroomed past.)
* Personification is the attribution of apersonal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
(Example: "Because I could not stop for Death,/He kindly stopped for me;/The carriage heldbut just ourselves/And Immortality." - Emily Dickinson.)
* Paradox is a statement or proposition which is self-contradictory, unreasonable, or illogical.
(Example: I dwell in a lonely house Iknow that vanished many a summer ago.)
* Hyperbole is a figure of speech which uses an extravagant or exaggerated statement to express strong feelings.
(Example: They had been walking so long thatJohn thought he might drink the entire lake when they came upon it.)
* Idiom is an expression consisting of a combination of words that have a figurative meaning.
(Example: You should keep youreye out for him.)
* Alliteration is the repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words such as tongue twisters.
(Example: She sells seashells by the seashore.)
* Assonanceis the repetition or a pattern of similar vowel sounds, but with different end consonants in a line or passage of verse or prose but with different assonance can be described as a vowel rhyme. ...