Figurative Language Exam Prep

A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. This form employs the terms "like" or "as."

• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• simile
• metaphor

A figure of speech that refers to something as being the same as another thing for rhetorical effect. 

• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• simile
• metaphor

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• simile
• metaphor

A  word that phonetically imitates, resembles or suggests the source of the sound that it describes.

• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• simile
• metaphor

A figure of speech where human qualities are given to animals, objects or ideas. 

• alliteration
• personification
• simile
• oxymoron

A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

• alliteration
• personification
• simile
• oxymoron

falsely true

• alliteration
• personification
• simile
• oxymoron

She sells sea-shells down by the sea-shore

• alliteration
• personification
• simile
• oxymoron

the Sun smiled at us

• alliteration
• personification
• simile
• oxymoron

He is a lion.

• alliteration
• metaphor
• simile
• oxymoron