Figurative Language

A comparison of two unlike things that implies one thing is similar to another.

• Simile

• Metaphor

Words whose sound suggest its meaning

• ONOMATOPOEIA

• Personification

A comparison of two unlike items using the words like and as.

• Simile

• Metaphor

Giving human qualities to non-living things.

• Personification

• Alliteration

An extravagant exaggeration that can’t possibly be true.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Repeated sounds at the beginning of words

• Alliteration

• Idiom

A phrase whose literal meaning is different from the implied meaning.

• idiom

• Metaphor