Figurative Language & Sound Devices

The repetition of initial consonant sounds (glad grace gives)

• Synecdoche

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Understatement

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A literary reference to another famous work, person, place, thing, event

• Allusion

• Apostrophe

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A form of personification where the absent or dead are spoken to as if present, or the inanimate, as if animate

• Implied Metaphor

• Synecdoche

• Apostrophe

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants

• assonance

• cliche

• extended metaphor

• understatement

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

an overused phrase or word that gives the audience no original thought

• symbolism

• personification

• hyperbole

• cliche

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Repetition of consonant sounds, not limited to initial letters (like alliteration)

• consonance

• assonance

• apostrophe

• overt metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant.

• oxymoron

• pun

• euphemism

• irony

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

When a figurative comparison stretches throughout the entire poem

• extended metaphor

• implied metaphor

• oxymoron

• overt metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Making a point through figurative over-exaggeration

• hyperbole

• personification

• irony

• euphemism

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A figurative comparison that is not overly obvious and must be inferred from the context of the passage

• overt metaphor

• implied metaphor

• extended metaphor

• similie

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D