a comparison of two things using like or as

His feet are as big as boats.

His feet are like boats.

WARNING:
(1) A rookie mistake that beginning writers often make: they'll draw a relationship between two unlike things and move on, daring us to take them at their word(s): "love is like a faucet

The simile needs a qualifying phrase or a parallel idea. "love is like a faucet / it turns off and on Billie Holliday (2) Oftentimes, a simile is bad because it compares something we might be able to visualize with something we might not be able to visualize.

Dreams Deferred by Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

A list of some of the worst high school similes

ever.

extreme exaggeration for emphasis.

She ran faster than the speed of light. He is a hairy beast.

To His Coy Mistress By Andrew Marvell

Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk and pass our long love's day. My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow; An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze;

repetition of the first letter or sound; Writers may use alliteration to give writing a musical quality.
Callie quickly corrected her overturned kayak on Lake Conroe.

compare two things without using like or as; instead, say one thing is another

My fingers were icicles.

give human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

The lightning struck out with anger.

Fog by Carl Sandburg The FOG comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

sound effect words~~like buzz, pop, meow, drip

The pizza sizzled as it came out of the oven.

The Great Figure William Carlos Williams Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city.

From Anthem for Doomed Youth

Wilfred Owen

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?

Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells; Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,

The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;

And bugles7 calling for them from sad shires

two words or phrases that contradict

Who ordered the jumbo shrimp?

Figurative Language Matching

WORD BANK:
Simile Hyperbole A. sound effect words B. compare two things without like or as; one thing is another. C. give a human qualities to an animal, object, or idea. D. Repetition of sounds E. comparison of two things using like or as. F. two words that contradict G. extreme exaggeration for emphasis.

Alliteration
Metaphor Personification Onomatopoeia Oxymoron

Sonnet 16 by Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summers day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summers lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or natures changing course untrimmd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wanderst in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

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Sonnet 16 by Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summers day? A Thou art more lovely and more temperate: B Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, A And summers lease hath all too short a date: B Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, C 5 And often is his gold complexion dimmd; D And every fair from fair sometime declines, C By chance or natures changing course untrimmd; D But thy eternal summer shall not fade E Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; F 10 Nor shall Death brag thou wanderst in his shade, E When in eternal lines to time thou growest: F So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, G So long lives this and this gives life to thee. G

SOUND DEVICE: ASSONANCE

- repetition of VOWEL SOUNDS at the BEGINNING, MIDDLE or END of at least two words in a line of poetry.

SOUND DEVICE: CONSONANCE

- repetition of CONSONANT SOUNDS at the BEGINNING, MIDDLE or END of at least two words in a line of poetry.

Assonance vs. Consonance

Examples of Assonance Repeating the eh sound in the words: crescent, flesh, extending, medicine and death Examples of Consonance Repeating the sh sound in the words: shush, wish, sharp, cushion and quash

Putting it Together!
Go to:

II, ii, 169-201

And find an example of each part of SHAMPOO. Then, write down WHY this example is being used.