Figurative Language Definitions

A comparison of 2 unlike things using "like" or "as."

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A comparison of 2 unlike things NOT using "like" or "as."

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

-Extreme exaggeration used to make a point.

• hyperbole
• simile
• alliteration
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Repetition of beginning consonant sounds.

• hyperbole
• allusion
• alliteration
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A word or phrase that suggests a sound.

• hyperbole
• simile
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

When something is not a person, yet it is given human qualities.

• personification
• idiom
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

An expression that means something other than what the words normally mean.

• personification
• idiom
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Making a reference to something well-known.

• personification
• idiom
• simile
• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4