FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Simile: uses like or as to describe something.
EX: "Piggy is as fat as a pig"
EX:"The conch is like a symbol for peace"
EX: "Piggy is as fat as a pig"
EX:"The conch is like a symbol for peace"
Metaphor: a figure of speech t describe something to another but is not taken literally
EX: a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry
EX:The mark the crashing plane has left in the forest is "a long scar",
EX: a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry
EX:The mark the crashing plane has left in the forest is "a long scar",
Personification:The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form
EX: "sleep enveloped him like the swathing mirages that were wrestling with the brilliance of the lagoon" EX:"then the sea breathed again in a long, slow sigh, the water boiled white and pink over the rock; and when it went, sucking back again, the body of Piggy gone"
EX: "sleep enveloped him like the swathing mirages that were wrestling with the brilliance of the lagoon" EX:"then the sea breathed again in a long, slow sigh, the water boiled white and pink over the rock; and when it went, sucking back again, the body of Piggy gone"
