By: Katelyn Hutchins

*LET Figurative Language Project

Metaphor

*A comparison between two things WITHOUT using like or as.

*Example 1: His room was a junk pile.

*Example 2: You are the sunshine of my life.

*His room was a junk pile.

*Explanation: His room was really messy!!

*You are the sunshine of my

life.

*Explanation: This person really likes someone!!

*Simile

*A comparison using like or as.

*Example 1: My brother is as sneaky as a rat.

*Example 2: His temper was as explosive as a volcano.

*My brother is as sneaky as a rat.

*Explanation: He was really sneaky!!

*His temper was as explosive as a

volcano.

*Explanation: He was very mad!

*Alliteration

*Explanation: words that have the letter 3 or more times in a sentence.

*Example 1: Grandmas give good advice to girls.

*Example 2: His dark eyes dared with danger.

*Grandmas give good advice to

girls.

*Explanation: She gives really good advice.

*His dark eyes dared with

danger

*Explanation: He was very mad!!!

*Onomatopoeia

*Explanation: Words that describe different sounds.

*Example 1: The bee went buzzing by the flower.

*Example 2: The bacon was sizzling in the frying pan.

*The bee went buzzing .

*Explanation: The sound a bee makes!

*The bacon was sizzling in the

frying pan.

*Explanation: The bacon was cooking.