SOL Vocabulary 4

An extreme exaggeration

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Descriptive language that contains or uses figures of speech

• Figurative

• Literal

• Poetry

• Imagery

Comparing two things using like or as

• Personification

• Pun

• Metaphor

• Simile

Directly comparing two things

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Idiom

Repetition of the beginning consonant sound

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Allusion

• Imagery

Giving human qualities to non-living objects or animals

• Idiom

• Personification

• Pun

• Onomatopoeia

A statement not meant to be taken literally, usually specific to a certain area

• Pun

• Oxymoron

• Idiom

• alliteration

A play on words

• Onomatopoeia

• Pun

• Idiom

• Simile

Words that mimic sound effects

• Oxymoron

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Imagery

Two words with opposite meanings

• Pun

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

• Oxymoron