Figurative
Language
Simile
Comparing two things using “like” or “as”
Mean -- Taylor Swift
“You have knocked me off my feet again
Got me feeling like a nothing
You, with your voice like nails on a chalkboard”
Metaphor
Describing something by saying it is
something else
Love is an open door – Frozen
“Love is an open door,
Love is an open door”
Alliteration
Repetition of an initial consonant
Let it Be – The Beatles
“She is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be”
Onomatopoeia
Word that sounds like the noise it
describes
Boom Boom Pow – Black Eyed Peas
“I like that boom boom pow”
Personification
Giving human characteristics or qualities
to nonhuman things
Shadow of the Day – Linkin Park
“And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in gray”