Figurative Language
Alliteration: When a row of words make the same beginning sound. Example: Buddy bit blue buds of the flowers.
Assonance: When a row of words make a similar vowel sound. Example: I lie by my dying wife and fight my crying.
Hyperbole: An exaggeration of a word or statement. Example: She gave me the deadliest look ever made.
Idiom: A statement that is hard to understand by non native speakers. Example: It's raining cats and dogs.
Irony:
Dramatic: When the audience knows something that main character doesn't know.
Verbal: The opposite of what someone really meant to say.
Situational: The opposite of what everyone was expecting.
Metaphor: Compairing two/many things without using like or as. Example: The kitten is a fluff ball.
Onomatpoeia: The word of a sound. Example: Bark, meow, chirp.
Personification: Giving non living things human like abilities. Example: The trees danced in the wind.
Simile: Compairing two/many things using like or as. Example: She looked like a princess in her dress.
Cliche: An overly used expression or a fad. Example: The child couldn't stop dabbing.
Pun: A play on words. It can cause a sentence to have two different meanings. Example: The pencil looks really sharp on his big day.
"Homework Helper." Figurative Language. Time for Kids, 2016. Web. 10 June 2016.