Figurative Language
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE ?? 1. ?Alliteration: ?Repetition of a beginning consonant sound?????????Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.??2. ?Assonance: ?Repetition of a vowel sound ?????????The sound of the hound was bound to make me crazy.??3. ?Hyperbole: ?Exaggeration?????????I am so hungry; I could eat a horse.??4. ?Personification: ?Giving human qualities to something that is not human?????????The trees danced in the wind.??5. ?Metaphor: ?A comparison that does not use like or as?????????Her face is an open book.??6. ?Simile: ?A comparison that uses like or as????????? Her face is like an open book.??7. ?Onomatopoeia: ?A word that sounds like what it means?????????Crack! ?Boom! ?Blam!??8. ?Symbolism: ?Something that represents or stands for something