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This document defines and provides examples of various types of figurative language, including imagery, simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, and idioms. It then lists additional resources for teaching these figurative language techniques, including lesson plans, presentations, games, and quizzes.

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This document defines and provides examples of various types of figurative language, including imagery, simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, and idioms. It then lists additional resources for teaching these figurative language techniques, including lesson plans, presentations, games, and quizzes.

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What is figurative language?

 Whenever you describe something


by comparing it with something else,
you are using figurative language.
Types of Figurative Language
 Imagery
 Simile
 Metaphor
 Alliteration
 Personification
 Onomatopoeia
 Hyperbole
 Idioms
Imagery
 Language that appeals to the senses.
Descriptions of people or objects
stated in terms of our senses.
• Sight
• Hearing
• Touch
• Taste
• Smell
Simile
 A figure of speech which involves a
direct comparison between two
unlike things, usually with the words
like or as.
Example: The muscles on his brawny
arms are strong as iron bands.
Metaphor
 A figure of speech which involves an
implied comparison between two relatively
unlike things using a form of be. The
comparison is not announced by like or
as.
Example: The road was a ribbon wrapped
through the desert.
Alliteration
 Repeated consonant sounds occurring at
the beginning of words or within words.
Example: She was wide-eyed and
wondering while she waited for Walter
to waken.
Personification
 A figure of speech which gives the
qualities of a person to an animal, an
object, or an idea.
Example: “The wind yells while blowing."
The wind cannot yell. Only a living thing can
yell.
Onomatopoeia
 The use of words that mimic
sounds.
Example: The firecracker made a
loud ka-boom!
Hyperbole
 An exaggerated statement used to
heighten effect. It is not used to
mislead the reader, but to emphasize
a point.
Example: She’s said so on several
million occasions.
Idioms
 An idiom or idiomatic expression refers to
a construction or expression in one
language that cannot be matched or
directly translated word-for-word in
another language.
Example: "She has a bee
in her bonnet," meaning
"she is obsessed,"
cannot be literally
translated into another
language word for word.
Figurative Language Resources
 Eye on Idioms (Online PPT)
 Paint by Idioms (Game)
 Alliteration or Simile? (Quiz)
 Similes and Metaphors (PPT)
 The Search for Similes, Metaphors, and Idioms
(PPT)
 Alliteration (PPT)
 Onomatopoeia (PPT)
 Personification (PPT)
 Hyperbole  (PPT)
 Idioms (PPT)
 Simile (PPT)
Teaching Similes and Metaphors
 Alliteration Lesson Plan and Resources
http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/1allitera.htm
 Hyperbole- Lesson Plans and Resources
http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/10lesson.htm
 Idiom Lesson Plan
http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/6lesson.htm
 Imagery- Lesson Plans and Resources
http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/imagery2.htm
 Lesson Plan for Puns
http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/5lesson.htm
 Onomatopoeia- Lesson Plans and Resources
http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/9lesson.htm
 Personification Lesson Plans and Resources
http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/7lesson.htm
 Proverbs- Lesson Plans and Resources
http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/proverbs2.htm

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