Figurative Language Terms

An indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, or object in history or in a literary work, (literary, biblical, and mythological).

• Imagery
• Allusion
• Personification
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

Is a comparison using like or as. It usually compares two unlike objects.

• similie
• metaphor
• idiom
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

States that one thing is something else. It is a comparison, but does NOT use like or as to make the comparison.

• onomatopoeia
• similie
• idiom
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Is giving human qualities, feelings, actions, or characteristics to inanimate (not living) objects

• onomatopoeia
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Is the imitation of natural sounds in word form. These words help us form mental pictures, or visualize, things, people, or places that are described. Sometimes a word names a thing or action by copying the sound.

• Alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• idiom
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Occurs when one thing stands for or represents something else.

• Allusion
• symbolism
• mood
• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Is intentionally exaggerated figures of speech.

• tone
• similie
• Hyperbole
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Involves one or more of your five senses - the abilities to hear, taste, touch, smell, and see. An author uses a word or phrase to stimulate your memory of those senses and to help create mental pictures.

• Imagery
• tone
• mood
• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.W.7.3B

An expression that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words. They are overused expressions.

• Idiom
• mood
• allusion
• tone

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

An author's attitude toward his or her subject.

• metaphor
• tone
• mood
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5D

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.6