imagery
allusion
metaphor
symbols
personification
Fi g u r at I ve
La n g u a ge
hyperbole
onomatopoeia
foreshadowing
By Alison Schwartz, Nicole Andress and,
Dillon Vansickle
Imagery
Close your eyes and picture this.
The wind rolls over the bright red, orange, yellow and
sparsely placed green leaves in the valley below you.
The waves crash far in the distance as the cold air
sweeps the water toward the rocky shore. It’s late fall
and the colors are at their peak. Wind whistles and
seagulls caw in the distance. From your vantage point
on this cliff, you can see the vast expanse of color
changing trees spread out below you- a spattering of
vibrant and warm autumn shades and rustling leaves.
The sky is pale pale blue, not a cloud in sight, and the
view is incredible.
Foreshadowing
This eventiswas
Foreshadowing
the act of
foreshadowed
in the
providing vague advance
beginning
the film
indications;of
representing
when
Bambi’s
beforehand
what mother
is to come.
warns him that there are
dangerous hunters in the
forest.
Personification
We all watched Disney movies as a child,
and all of these characters bring to mind a
personality, a voice, an individual.
When humanlike qualities
are given to inanimate
objects, this is called
personification.
Metaphor
Metaphors are everywhere- you’ve learned
about them since elementary school, and now
you listen to them in the music you play on the
way to school, in the books you read, and in the
television shows you watch.
Metaphors can be found everywhere, from the
Twilight series representing teen chastity to
songs on the radio that rap about something, but
that describe something else completely
different.
Allusion
 An
allusion is a figure of speech that
makes a reference to a place, event,
literary work, or work of art, either
directly or by implication.
 “Oh, stop being such a Romeo”
 “You’re such a Scrooge!”
Hyperbole

Hyperboles are REALLY
REALLY INTENSE
exaggerations.
 It’s ABSOLUTELY true that
EVERYONE you know uses
hyperboles ALL THE TIME.
 High school students
NEVER stop using them, for
example.
 You DEFINITELY use them
EVERY DAY.
Onomatopoeia
BOOM
CRASH
CAW
BANG
MEOW
Symbols
 We
see symbols everywhere in our daily
lives, from advertisements to far more
advanced literary symbols that go to
represent the entire theme of the story,
such as the red hunting hat in Catcher in
the Rye.