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Types and Examples of Figurative Language

This document defines and provides examples of different types of figurative language including simile, metaphor, idiom, personification, and alliteration. It explains that a simile directly compares two unlike things using "like" or "as", a metaphor implies a comparison without using "like" or "as", an idiom is an expression specific to a language that cannot be taken literally, personification gives human characteristics to non-human things, and alliteration uses words starting with the same sound in a phrase or sentence.

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Types and Examples of Figurative Language

This document defines and provides examples of different types of figurative language including simile, metaphor, idiom, personification, and alliteration. It explains that a simile directly compares two unlike things using "like" or "as", a metaphor implies a comparison without using "like" or "as", an idiom is an expression specific to a language that cannot be taken literally, personification gives human characteristics to non-human things, and alliteration uses words starting with the same sound in a phrase or sentence.

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Type of Figurative Definition Examples

Language

Simile A comparison of two The sleeping baby was a


unlike things that uses quiet as a cricket
“like” or “as”
I slept like a rock last night

Metaphor A comparison of two Jack is the shining star of our


unlike things that does classroom
not use “like” or “as”
We have to hurry because
time is money

Idiom An expression that can’t The equation 1+1 is a piece


be taken literally and is of cake
usually specific to a
certain language Mary bit off more than she
can chew on this project

Personification Giving human My comfortable bed was


characteristics to things calling my name
that are not human
The monkeys were laughing
and chattering

Alliteration Using several words with Sam sipped a strawberry


the same beginning slushie last Sunday
sound in a phrase or
sentence Horrible Henrietta hates
hamburgers

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