Figurative Language

A direct comparison between unlike things; using like or as.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

an implied comparison; it does not use special key words

• alliteration

• symbols

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The occurrence of 2 or more words in succession having the same beginning sound.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Treating objects or animals as if they were human.

• symbols

• personification

• alliteration

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Uses words to imitate sounds made by the object described

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• symbols

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

overstatement - an exaggeration

• symbols

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

concrete object used to represent abstract idea

• symbols

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

substitutes one word for another

• allusion

• synecdoche

• meiosis

• symbolism

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

understatement, less than expected, or opposite to what is expected

• synecdoche

• metaphor

• meiosis

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

refers to something that is well known by most people

• synecdoche

• meiosis

• biography

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4