Notes over figurative language

1. a
e’s
H
e!!
re
t
I can
’t bel
ieve
they
TIED
THE
KNO
T!
She’s as free
as a bird.
Flowers are
to the
garden as Coach Yeager
books are to
English 1

2. Figurative language is used
to create a special effect
or feeling. It is
characterized by language
that compares, exaggerates,
or means something other
than
Alliteration, analogy, idioms,
what it first appears to
similes, metaphors,
mean.
personification, onomatopoeia,

3. is the repetition of consonant sounds
at the beginning of words.
• Smiling Sara
sweetly sang
songs in the
street

4. Go is to
Green
as
Red is
to Stop
• An analogy is a
point-by-point
comparison of two
unlike things or
ideas that are
similar in the
RELATIONSHIP.

5. is a commonly used phrase that
means something different
from the literal meaning of the
words.
That
He’s walking fight is
around with a water
under
chip on his
the
shoulder.
bridge.

6. • Similes are
used to compare
two unlike
things using
like or as.
Coach
Yeager
is as
wise
as an
owl.

7. Don’t use
He’s a a
like or
s when th
ey
work
compare 2
horse! things.
Marley
is an
angel!

8. is a figure of speech in
which human qualities are
given to an object, animal,
or
The idea.
The wind
played
hide and
seek with
the
The
flowers
begged for
water!
howled
all
night.

9. Words that sound the
way they are spelled.
Zing!

10. • An extreme exaggeration.