Examples of Figurative Language
	Oxymoron: No light, but rather darkness visible Silent cry Cruel kindness Thunderous silence Make haste slowly Simile: “The bees, like big drops of honey” “When I watch you wrapped up like garbage” “The sun spun like a tossed coin” “ Here and there his brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper” “Has split like a sheath” Metaphor: “Morning is a new sheet of paper” “The fine, green pajama cotton, washed so often it is paper-thin and iridescent” “When I watch you, you wet brown bag of a woman” “Let your head be tipped back in the cup of my hand” They are bears when they sleep. Exact rhyme: Mine, fine, wine, line, tine Sending, mending, tending, lending Slow, flow, glow, snow And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Alliteration: “The long light shakes across the lakes” “And snowy summits old in story” “Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying” “O hark, O hear how thin and clear” “Our echoes roll from soul to soul”			Assonance: “Hear the mellow wedding bells.” Try to light the fire He gave a nod to the officer with the pocket Mankind can handle most problems The child of mine was lying on her side Consonance: “They said, ‘wait’ well I waited.” A mime imitated my manner impishly last Monday morning. Green as grass McDonald's Massacre John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith Onomatopoeia: “husha-husha-hush with the slippery sand paper” “Cry like a racing car slipping away from a motorcycle cop, bang-bang” “ A Mississippi steamboat pushes up the high river with a hoo-hoo-oo…” Listen to the bee buzz Clackity, clack, the train rushes down the track Hyperbole: I nearly died from laughing He is as big as a house! I heard that a million times This book weighs a ton. I'm so hungry I could eat a horse Personification: “All roads at some time or another have held a single shoe” The wind whispered to them as they ran through the woods The heat ripped the breath from her lungs The leaves danced in the wind The wind moaned and screeched.