Figurative Language Test Review - Definitions

An exaggeration for effect; not to be taken literally

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Denotation

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using ‘like’ or ‘as’

• Simile

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

When contradictory terms appear side by side

• Pun

• Oxymoron

• Onomatopoeia

• Dramatic Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

A comparison between two things to highlight a point of similarity - it expresses a set of like relationships between two sets of terms

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Analogy

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

The art or technique of giving human attributes to nonhuman or inanimate things.

• Personification

• Assonance

• Juxtaposition

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

The use of words which usually sound like the objects or actions to which they refer

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Pun

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.5.10

A comparison between two unlike things usually using ‘like’ or ‘as’

• Connotation

• Metaphor

• Analogy

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

The repetition of the same consonant letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words.

• Oxymoron

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A feeling or idea that a word has, in addition to its literal meaning.

• Connotation

• Situational Irony

• Onomatopoeia

• Denotation

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

A brief, indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance.

• Juxtaposition

• Allusion

• Assonance

• Pun

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4