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Poetry:Figurative Language
Kristi FischerFlandreau Middle School
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Types of Figurative Language
often used in Poetry:• Simile• Metaphor• Personification• Alliteration• Onomatopoeia
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Simile
• An implied comparison usually using “like” or “as”
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Simile
• Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get.
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Simile
• He ran down the field like a freight train.
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Simile
• She was as quiet as a mouse.
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Metaphor• The process of
describing one thing as if it were another.
• Does not use “like”
or “as”
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Metaphor
• Our project is almost finished. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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Metaphor
• He had butterflies in his stomach.
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Metaphor
• He carried the weight of the world on his shoulders.
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Personification•A figure of speech in which a thing, quality, or idea is represented as a person.
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Personification
• The sun peeked over the mountain tops.
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Personification
• One lonely slice of pizza remained.
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Personification
• After a long day of work, the swimming pool was calling my name.
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Alliteration
• The repetition of the same sound at the beginning of two or more closely associated words.
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Alliteration
• Like loads of laundry lying on the lovely linoleum.
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Alliteration
• Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
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Alliteration
• Those creepy crawly critters caused a cramp in my cranium.
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Onomatopoeia
• A word that imitates the sound it represents.
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Onomatopoeia
• The water gurgled as it flowed down the drain.
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Onomatopoeia
• The storm clouds rumbled across the sky.
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Onomatopoeia
• It seemed everyone was sniffling during the cold and flu season.
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Types of Figurative Language
• Simile• Metaphor• Personification• Alliteration• Onomatopoeia
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