15th April 2020 — Chloe
Figurative Learning
| Technique | Definition | Example |
| Simile | Like or As | They fought like cats and dogs. |
| Metaphor | Applied to an object | Her suggestion was just a Band-Aid for the problem. |
| Personification | human characteristics to something non-human, | Lightning danced across the sky. |
| Onematapeia | is when a word describes a sound and actually mimics the sound of the object or action it refers to when it is spoken. | *Hiss *Honk *Buzz |
| Hyperbole | Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally | I’m so hungry I could eat a horse |
| Alliteration | same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely or connected words | A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies. |