Figurative Language Review

Imagery device that makes a comparison of 2 unlike things using as, than, or like

EX: Kellan is faster than a cheetah on the football field.

• simile

• metaphor

• imagery

• hyperbole

An expression which meaning is completely different from what the words say EX: It's raining cats and dogs.

• Alliteration

• Imagery 

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

What imagery device gives inanimate objects or animals human characteristics, feelings, thoughts, or actions EX: The flowers were dancing in the breeze.

• Personfication

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Allusion

What is an indirect reference to a famous person, place, event, work of literature(character or plot), mythology, or biblical.

Example: Chocolate Cake is my Achilles hell.

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Allusion

Each blade of grass was a tiny bayonet pointed firmly at our bare feet

• Hyperbole
• Idiom
• Personification
• Simile

An overstatement or exaggeration used for emphasis or humor

• Personfication
• Hyperbole
• Idiom
• Simile

Descriptive language that appeals to the five senses to create a vivid mental image

• Alliteration
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Imagery

A comparison of 2 unlike things that does not use any connecting words

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Idiom
• Allusion

Keep me stuck inside your head like your favorite tune

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Idiom

Lauren had a smile rivaled only by that of the Mona Lisa.

• Metaphor
• Allusion
• Idiom
• Hyperbole