The Language of Poets and Writers

What is Figurative LanguageAnd

What are Idiomatic Expressions?

Figurative Language: Language used to make words appeal to the senses and create imagery.

Metaphor:Your green eyes are lovely, round lemons

Simile:Your big feet are like

two long planks

Exaggeration or Hyperbole:

“I am so hungry I could eat a horse”

Alliteration:Ethan eats eggs every

evening

Personification:

Snowball was laughing

Onomatopaeia“Hiss”

“Sizzle”“Thump”

“Stop

Investigate Figurative Language and provide an example

Metaphor: Simile: Exaggeration or Hyperbole:

Alliteration: Personification: Onomatopaeia

A penny saved is a penny earned

It means that if you save your money you will be able to always have money in the

future.

You are the apple of my eye.

It means that you are

someone’s favorite person.

You are the teacher’s pet.

It means that you are the teacher’s favorite student, or

the one she favors the most.

Better safe than sorryIt means that you might as well

take precautions and not get into a situation that you might

regret later.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

It means that those who do not know how to manage their

money, nor save it, will end up with nothing or will lose it way

quickly.

He or she is not the sharpest knife in the

drawer.It means that he or she are not

very smart, or very bright.

The pot is calling the kettle “black”

He will run all the way to the bank.

It is raining cats and dogs.

I am on cloud 9. This was a piece of cake.

I have ants in my pants