For Elementary students, 5 Basic Figures of Speech.

3. Figures of speech are words or
phrases
that depart from straightforward
literal language. Figures of
speech
are often used and crafted for
emphasis, freshness, expression,
or
clarity.
It creates pictures in the mind
of a reader.
It adds color and interest to
awaken the imaginative minds of
the readers .

5. An Emerald is as green as grass
A ruby red as blood
A sapphire shines as blue as heaven
A flint lies in the mud.
*Flint, Christina Rossetti
The school library is like a
mountain of books

6. A simile is the comparison of two unlike
things using “like” or “as”. .
He eats like a pig.
You are as pretty as a
picture.

8. Love is a walk in the rain at night,
Two hands, holding onto each other
tight;
Love is honey on a pair of lips,
Onto a tender heart it drips.
*Love Is, Unknown

9. A metaphor is the comparison of
two unlike things or expressions,
It is not using like or as (as in a
simile).
He is a pig.
You are a tulip.

11. The teapot sang as the water boiled
The ice cubes cackled in their glass
the teacups chattered to one
another.
While the chairs were passing gas.
*Dinnertime Chorus, Sharon Hendricks

12. Applying human traits to animals
and things or ideas.
•The flowers waltzed in the gentle
breeze.
•The stars danced playfully in the
moonlit sky.

14. I’m bigger than the entire earth
More powerful than the sea
Though a million, billion have tried
Not one could ever stop me.
*What Am I?, Sharon Hendricks

15. A hyperbole is an exaggeration or an
overstatement.
His feet are as big as boats!
I nearly died laughing!

17. Slam! Slam!
Go the car doors.
Jangle! Jangle!
Go the house keys.
Jiggle! Jiggle!
Go the keys in the door.
Squeak!
Goes the front door!
Thump! Thump!
That is me running down the stairs.
Guess what?
Mom and Dad are home!!
Mom & Dad Are Home, Natasha Niemi

18. An onomatopoeia is a word that
imitates the sounds it represents.
The chiming of the bells…
The boom of the explosion…

21. He clattered and clanged as he washed
the dishes.
(A) Simile
(B) Onomatopoeia
(C) Hyperbole
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!

22. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!
Life is a beach!
(A)Metaphor
(B) Personification
(C) Simile

23. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!
The river falls under us like a trap door.
(A) Onomatopoeia
(B) Simile
(C) Metaphor

24. The car complained as the key was
turned.
(A) Onomatopoeia
(B) Personification
(C) Metaphor
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!

25. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!
I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!
(A) Hyperbole
(B) Metaphor
(C) Onomatopoeia

26. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!
The glass vase is as fragile as a child’s
sandcastle.
(A) Metaphor
(B) Alliteration
(C) Simile

27. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!
My alarm clock yells at me every morning.
(A) Onomatopoeia
(B) Simile
(C) Personification

28. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!
The buzzing bee startled me!
(A) Hyperbole
(B) Onomatopoeia
(C) Metaphor

29. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!
Her eyes were fireflies.
(A) Hyperbole
(B) Onomatopoeia
(C) Metaphor

30. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!
I’ve heard that joke a billion times, but it
still cracks me up!
(A) Simile
(B) Metaphor
(C) Hyperbole

32. USE YOUR NOGGIN!
Write a story about an experience
in your life in 2-3 Sentences.
Use the figures of speech
we learned today!
(Simile, Metaphor, Personification,
Onomatopoeia, Hyperbole)