Figurative language includes metaphors, similes, hyperbole, personification, and idioms. A simile is a type of metaphor that uses "like" or "as" to compare two unrelated things, such as describing the sun as "like a fuchia ornament decorating the sky." For both similes and metaphors, the reader's goal is to determine what two things are being compared and how the author finds them related, and it is important that the two things compared are actually unrelated rather than one just being a description of the other.

1. hyperbole
metaphor
Figurative Language
personification
idiom

2. “A picture’s worth a thousand
words.” -anonymous
“A metaphor’s worth a thousand
pictures.” -Dan Pink

3. A Type of Metaphor
• It’s true! A simile is actually just a type
of metaphor, a very specific type.
• The difference hinges on just two small
words: “like” and “as.”

4. Simile
• Simile: (a type of metaphor) comparing
two different/unrelated things using
“like” or “as”
• EX: The sun was like a fuchsia ornament
decorating the sky.

5. • Just like in a regular metaphor, the
reader's or listener's goal is to
determine what two things are being
compared and in what way the author
finds them related.
• *NOTE: Again, it is essential to compare
two things that are unrelated. You cannot
compare the sun to a ball of fire because
it IS a ball of fire (more or less).

6. • Just like in a regular metaphor, the
reader's or listener's goal is to
determine what two things are being
compared and in what way the author
finds them related.
• *NOTE: Again, it is essential to compare
two things that are unrelated. You cannot
compare the sun to a ball of fire because
it IS a ball of fire (more or less).