Learn and practice figurative language.

1. Figurative Language
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2. My brother eats like a pig!

3. Simile
A simile compares two
things using like or as.
My brother eats like a pig.
brother = pig

4. Her boyfriend is a dog!

5. Metaphor
A metaphor makes a comparison by
saying one thing is another thing.
Her boyfriend is a dog.
He’s not actually a dog, but he acts like a dog.

6. I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!

7. Hyperbole
Hyperbole is an obvious
and unrealistic exaggeration.
It’s probably impossible for a person to eat a horse, but
hyperbole is used to say “I’m really, really hungry!”

8. The sun smiled down on the
children below.

9. Personification
Personification gives human traits
(qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics)
to non-living objects (things, colors, qualities, or ideas).

10. School was a picnic for Little Joe.

11. Metaphor
Click on the image for an interactive picnic basket.

12. The table danced across the floor
during the earthquake.

13. Personification
Click image for earthquake video.

14. The campers slept soundly as the fire
crackled and hissed.

15. Onomatopoeia
An onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the
sounds associated with the objects or actions
to which it refers.

16. She swims as swiftly as
a dolphin.

17. Simile
A simile compares two things using like or as.
She swims as swiftly as a dolphin.

18. The students clapped and
whistled during the talent show.

19. Onomatopoeia
The students clapped and whistled during the
talent show.