Pollner figurativelanguage
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This document defines and provides examples of different types of figurative language: metaphors, similes, hyperboles, onomatopoeia, personification, alliteration, and idioms. Metaphors and similes are compared using definitions that describe metaphors as direct comparisons using "is" and similes as indirect comparisons using "like" or "as". Examples of each figurative language technique are also provided.
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Pollner figurativelanguage
- 1. Figurative Language By Lee #10 February 13, 2012
- 2. Metaphors Definition from wordcentral.com : a figure of speech in which a word or phrase meaning one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a similarity between them (as in the ship plows the sea) Definition from dictionary.com : a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in A mighty fortress is our God.
- 4. Poem that uses Metaphors
- 5. Simile Definition of a simile at wordcentral.com: a figure of speech in which things different in kind or quality are compared by the use of the word like or as (as in eyes like stars Definition of a simile at dictionary.com: a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in she is like a rose
- 6. What is a Simile?
- 7. Poems that use Similes
- 8. Some more examples of Similes
- 9. Definition of hyperbole at wordcentral.com: extravagant exaggeration used to emphasize a point <"mile-high ice cream cones" is an example of hyperbole> Definition of hyperbole dictionary.com: an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as to wait an eternity.
- 11. More Examples of Hyperbole
- 12. Onomatopoeia Definition from wordcentral.com: 1 : the naming of a thing or action by imitation of natural sounds (as "buzz" or "hiss") ALSO, the use of words whose sound suggests the sense Definition from dicitonary.com: the formation of which, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boo m, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
- 14. More Examples of Onomatopoeia
- 15. Personification Definition of personification from www.imschools.org/cms/Units/Poetry/pers onif.htm: Personification is giving human traits (qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics) to non-living objects. Definition of Personification from lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/personific ation-examples-2848.html: Personification is the act of attributing human traits and qualities to inanimate objects
- 17. More Examples of Personification
- 18. Alliteration Definition at wordcentral.com: the repetition of a sound at the beginning of two or more neighboring words (as in wild and woolly or a babbling brook) Definition at dictionary.com: the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group (consonantal alliteration), as in from stem to stern, or with a vowel sound that may differ from syllable to syllable (vocalic alliteration),
- 20. More Examples of Alliteration
- 21. Idioms Definition at wordcentral.com: an expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but must be learned as a whole <the expression "give way," meaning "retreat," is an idiom> Definition at dictionary.com: an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics.
- 23. See If You Can Complete This Idiom Worksheet!