Types of Figurative Language you can use (from BrainPOP and our learning):

Simile

• Definition: A comparison using “like” or “as.”

• Example: Her smile was as bright as the sun.

Metaphor

• Definition: A direct comparison saying something is something else.

• Example: Time is a thief that steals our moments.

Personification

• Definition: Giving human qualities to non-human things.

• Example: The wind danced through the trees.

Hyperbole

• Definition: An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally.

• Example: I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.

Onomatopoeia

• Definition: A word that imitates a sound.

• Example: The bacon sizzled in the pan.

Alliteration

• Definition: The repetition of the same starting sound in several words.

• Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

2. I was so tired I thought I would never wake up

The leaves were dancing in the wind.

2. He shot the ball so hard that everyone herd the whooshing sound a the crowd went silent!

2. The thunder was as loud as a lion roaring.

2. he dragged himself to the finish line like a sloth

2. The trees looked like green giants swaying in the wind

3. I felt like I was floating in heaven