6th Grade ELA

Students should fold paper in half (landscape or hamburger) and then make 4 even cuts (half the distance from the open end to the folded closed end). There should be 5 flaps on each side. Below is the final product.

Title on the top of a new page in your journal – Figurative Language

Write this definition:

Figurative Language: any language used by a writer that helps the reader visualize, understand, or experience what they read.

Figurative Language Foldable

(These are the definitions that should be copied word for word into your Figurative Language Foldable)

  1. Simile: A simile is a comparison of two unlike things that uses like or as. (Example: Her eyes were like stars. – eyes and stars are being compared & uses like)

2.  Metaphor: A metaphor is a comparison of two unlike things

that DOES NOT use like or as. (Example: Her eyes were bright stars in the night sky. – eyes and stars are being compared & does NOT use like)

  1. Personification: Personification gives human traits (thoughts and emotions) to a non-human subject. (Example: My computer hates me. – a computer does not feel hate)

4.  Alliteration: Alliteration is the repetition of the initial consonant sound. (Example: The slimy snake slid by. – “s” sound repeats 3 times)

5.  Imagery: Imagery is descriptive language that appeals to any of the 5 senses (Example: The stinky rotten garbage burned my nose. – appeals to sense of smell and touch)

6.  Hyperbole: A hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration used to make your point (Example: I could eat a million pounds of candy right now. – can’t really do it!)

7.  Idiom: An idiom is a figure of speech that only works in its native language. (Example: It’s raining cats and dogs. Or Who let the cat out of the bag?

8.  Onomatopoeia: Onomatopoeia is the use of words that imitate sounds. (Example: "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is." (slogan of Alka Seltzer, U.S.)

9.  Allusion: An allusion is a reference to a well known literary work, person, place or thing. Used for a specific purpose in writing. (Example: The girl had the grin of the Cheshire Cat.)

10. Symbol: A symbol is thing that represents a bigger idea or person, place, or thing (Example: A dove symbolizes the idea of peace, the trident symbolizes the god Poseidon).