Figurative Language

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

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

an implied comparison; it does not use special key words

• alliteration

• symbols

• simile

• metaphor

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

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

Treating objects or animals as if they were human.

• symbols

• personification

• alliteration

• simile

Uses words to imitate sounds made by the object described

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• symbols

overstatement - an exaggeration

• symbols

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

concrete object used to represent abstract idea

• symbols

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• alliteration

substitutes one word for another

• allusion

• synecdoche

• meiosis

• symbolism

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

• synecdoche

• metaphor

• meiosis

• personification

refers to something that is well known by most people

• synecdoche

• meiosis

• biography

• allusion