[id: a simple worksheet about various types of Figurative Language. Each term has a definition, a few examples, and a black and white illustration. Transcription follows:
Alliteration: Repetition of the same beginning word sound in a written unit
Examples: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
See the sun set slowly in the sky
(Image: unintelligible words except their first letters; a set with all 'A's and a set with all 'SH's)
Dramatic Irony: When the audience knows something the character does not
Examples: In Romeo and Juliet, we know that Juliet is faking death.
Romeo thinks she is really dead, so he kills himself in grief
In Frozen, Olaf is excited about summer, but the audience knows he would just
melt
(Image: A person casting the shadow of a wolf howling behind them)
Hyperbole: An exaggerated statement
Examples: I caught a fish bigger than a house!
Iâm so thirsty I could drink a whole lake!
(Image: A house with a fish as long as it is tall)
Idiom: A phrase meant to convey an idea beyond its literal meaning
Examples: Let the cat out of the bag: reveal a secret
Beat around the bush: Avoid getting to the point
(Image: a cat poking its head and front paws out of a bag. It holds a small piece of paper with question marks on it in its mouth)
Irony: A situation that seems to contradict itself
Examples: A fire extinguisher on fire
A misspelled spelling bee trophy
(Image: a fire extinguisher on fire)
Metaphor: A comparison not using âlikeâ or âasâ
Examples: The task was a mountain standing in her way
The coronerâs smile was a row of gravestones
(Image: a path leading to a mountain labeled 'Homework')
Onomatopoeia: A word that sounds like the sound it represents
Examples: Boom! Ding, snap, meow, hiss, beep
(Image: a cartoony explosion with the word 'Boom", and a desk bell with the word 'Ding')
Oxymoron: A phrase made of two opposites
Examples: Jumbo Shrimp, Pretty Ugly
Personification: Allocating human traits to non human objects or animals
Examples: The donuts called out to me
The printer could sense my fear
(Image: a donut yelling 'Hey!')
Simile: A comparison using the word âlikeâ or âasâ
Examples: Her dress sparkled like the Milky Way
The fluorescent lights were as bright as the sun
(Image: A sleeveless dress with a sparkling skirt next to a blob of night sky and stars)
Symbolism: The repeated use of image/characteristics to connect to larger ideas
Examples: sun/moon or day/night: good/bad, solid/mysterious, loud/quiet
Sapling: growth, resilience, fragility
(Image: a half sun/half moon, and a small plant sprout)
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