Poetry: Figurative Language

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PoetryFigurative Language
Kristi Fischer Flandreau Middle School
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Types of Figurative Languageoften used in Poetry

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia

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Simile

• An implied comparison usually using like or
  as

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Simile

• Life is like a box of chocolates you never know
  what youre going to get.

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Simile

• He ran down the field like a freight train.

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Simile

• She was as quiet as a mouse.

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Metaphor

• The process of describing one thing as if it were
  another.
• Does not use like or as

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Metaphor

• Our project is almost finished. I can see the
  light at the end of the tunnel.

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Metaphor

• He had butterflies in his stomach.

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Metaphor

• He carried the weight of the world on his
  shoulders.

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Personification

• A figure of speech in which a thing, quality, or
  idea is represented as a person.

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Personification

• The sun peeked over the mountain tops.

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Personification

• One lonely slice of pizza remained.

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Personification

• After a long day of work, the swimming pool was
  calling my name.

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Alliteration

• The repetition of the same sound at the beginning
  of two or more closely associated words.

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Alliteration

• Like loads of laundry lying on the lovely
  linoleum.

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Alliteration

• Sally sells seashells by the seashore.

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Alliteration

• Those creepy crawly critters caused a cramp in my
  cranium.

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Onomatopoeia

• A word that imitates the sound it represents.

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Onomatopoeia

• The water gurgled as it flowed down the drain.

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Onomatopoeia

• The storm clouds rumbled across the sky.

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Onomatopoeia

• It seemed everyone was sniffling during the cold
  and flu season.

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Types of Figurative Language

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia

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