Figurative+Language

example: "I move fast like a cheetah on the Serengeti." example: "You are an ant, while I'm the lion." example: "Five freaky females finding sales at retail." example: "I fought a million rappers in an afternoon in June." example: "Alright, the sky misses the sun at night." example: "The poorest man is the richest, and the rich are poor." example: In Tupac Shakur's song //Me and My Girlfriend//, the "girflfriend" referenced is actually his gun. example: "Hear the m**e**llow w**e**dding b**e**lls." - Edgar Allen Poe" example: "Out of reach, I pull out with a **screech**." example: "O, King Vitamin cereal, you blow my mind!" example: "Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells" - T.S. Eliot example: Instead of saying "give me your attention," you could say "give me your ear." example: "The boat had been ripped apart by the storm and now a dozen hungry sharks began circling the captain. 'This isn't great,' he told his wife."
 * Simile** (SIH-muh-lee): a comparison between two or more things using the words //like// or //as//.
 * Metaphor** (MET-uh-for): a comparison between two or more things that doesn't use the words //like// or //as//.
 * Alliteration** (uh-LIT-er-AY-shuhn): a phrase with a string of words all beginning with the same sound.
 * Hyperbole ** (hie-PER-buh-lee): an exaggeration.
 * Personification**, (per-son-if-ih-KAY-shon): giving an animal or object human-like characteristics.
 * Paradox** (PARE-uh-docks): a statement that seems untrue, that seems to contradict itself.
 * Symbol** (SIM-bull): something that stands for something else (often something more abstract).
 * Assonance** (ASS-uh-nince): the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyme.
 * Onomatopoeia** (ON-uh-maht-uh-PEE-uh): a word that imitates the sound it is describing.
 * Apostrophe** (uh-POS-troh-fee): a figure of speech that addresses (talks to) a dead or nonpresent person, or an object.
 * Imagery ** (IM-aj-ree): a very general term that encompasses nearly any description of something that conjures an image, sound, taste, smell or feeling to mind. In other words a literal or concrete representation of a sensory experience or of an object that can be known by one or more senses.
 * Metonymy ** (met-TON-im-ee): a figure of speech that replaces the literal thing with a more vivid, but closely related thing or idea.
 * Understatement ** (UHN-der-stayt-ment): the opposite of hyperbole, an understatement makes something that is a big deal seem not very important. It's often used for humor.