Figurative+Language

Figurative Language:

Simile - a figure of speech that draws a comparison between two different things, especially a phrase containing the word "like" or "as," e.g. "as white as a sheet"

Metaphor - all language that involves figures of speech or symbolism and does not literally represent real things

Hyperbole - exaggeration: deliberate and obvious exaggeration used for effect, e.g. "I could eat a million of these"

Personification - is an ontological metaphor in which a thing or abstraction is represented as a person