What’s on the Figurative Language poster
A 6-row table: Device · What it does · Example.
Figurative language means something other than the literal words.
- Simile — compares using like or as — as quiet as snow
- Metaphor — says one thing IS another — the sky was a bruise
- Personification — gives human traits to things — the wind whispered
- Hyperbole — wild exaggeration — I've told you a million times
- Idiom — a fixed phrase with a hidden meaning — it's raining cats and dogs
- Onomatopoeia — a word that sounds like its noise — buzz, crash, splash
Naming it is half the mark. Saying what it does to the reader is the other half.
Questions about the Figurative Language poster
- What’s on the Figurative Language poster?
- A 6-row table: Device · What it does · Example. Figurative language means something other than the literal words. Simile — compares using like or as — as quiet as snow; Metaphor — says one thing IS another — the sky was a bruise; Personification — gives human traits to things — the wind whispered; Hyperbole — wild exaggeration — I've told you a million times; Idiom — a fixed phrase with a hidden meaning — it's raining cats and dogs; Onomatopoeia — a word that sounds like its noise — buzz, crash, splash. Naming it is half the mark. Saying what it does to the reader is the other half.
- Who is the Figurative Language poster for?
- Figurative Language is filed under 4th Grade (ages 9–10), so it matches what that year asks a child to remember. It is equally useful to an older student revisiting literacy, and to the parent or teacher answering the question at the kitchen table.
- When should you use the Figurative Language poster?
- Find one in whatever they are reading tonight and name it. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Figurative Language belongs on the wall where that literacy work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Figurative Language?
- Commas in a List, Editing Checklist and Homographs sit alongside Figurative Language in the 4th Grade set. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Commas in a ListEditing ChecklistHomographs
- Is the Figurative Language poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Figurative Language downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the 4th Grade set. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Figurative Language poster print at?
- Figurative Language is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Figurative Language loses nothing.Printing guide
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