Transcript Figurative Language - Fullerton Union High School

Figurative Language
Simile
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A comparison of two unlike things using
the words like or as
Ex. “It was like coming into the cold
marbled room of a mausoleum” (11).
The bedroom where Mildred is sleeping is
like a place where dead bodies are stored.
Metaphor
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A comparison of two unlike things without
using the words like or as
Ex. “the flapping pigeon-winged books
died on the porch and lawn of the house”
(3).
Books are compared to birds.
Personification
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Giving human traits to non-human things
Ex. “As he stood there the sky over the
house screamed” (13).
The sky cannot actually scream because it
does not have vocal chords like a human
does.
Imagery
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A detailed sensory description (touch,
taste, sight, sound, smell)
Ex. “They walked in the warm-cool
blowing night to the silvered pavement
and there was the faintest breath of fresh
apricots and strawberries in the air” (7).
Imagery
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A detailed sensory description (touch,
taste, sight, sound, smell)
Ex. “They walked in the warm-cool
blowing night to the silvered pavement
and there was the faintest breath of fresh
apricots and strawberries in the air” (7).
smell
sight
touch