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Figurative Language Activities Guide

The document provides an overview of different types of figurative language including metaphor, simile, alliteration, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, and personification. It defines each type and provides some examples. It also includes short activities for students to practice identifying and using different types of figurative language.

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Figurative Language Activities Guide

The document provides an overview of different types of figurative language including metaphor, simile, alliteration, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, and personification. It defines each type and provides some examples. It also includes short activities for students to practice identifying and using different types of figurative language.

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May 7, 2017

Figurative Language Figurative Language


Lessons and Activities
for use in Reading and Writing Authors use many types of figurative language
in order to help the reader visualize and
understand what they are writing

metaphor
Shelly Moses simile
San Diego Jewish Academy alliteration These are some types
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onomatopoeia of figurative language.
www.teachsmarter.ning.com personification
hyperbole

Metaphor Simile
comparing two nouns that are not alike using the words "like" or "as" to
compare two nouns that are not alike

It's raining cats and dogs! as sick as a dog

Sort the similes and metaphors. Alliteration


the repetition of the same sound at
the beginning of words in a line of
poetry or in a sentence

VortexSort2 Peter Piper picked a


peck of pickled peppers.
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Onomatopoeia Sort the phrases.


when a word sounds like the
sound it is describing

bang SortTable

Hyperbole Write some examples of hyperbole


an exaggeration that is not meant that you have heard recently.
to be taken seriously

forever
11 1
We had to wait 10 2
forever! 9 3
8 4
7 6 5

Personification Finish these sentences using the


describing human qualities in technique of personification.
something that is not a person
After a hard day of work, the shovel _____________.

The cloud was ______________ and began to rain.

My computer died.
The ocean decided to _________________________.

The sun _____________________ on my shoulders.

The hammer hit the nail ______________________.


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Let's see what you remember...

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