Figurative Language

Comparing something using like or as.

Busy as a bee

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Imagery

Comparing something without using like or as.

Her heart is gold.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Allusion

A nonliving thing is given human actions.

The wind howled in the night.

• Irony

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Personification

Using 5 senses to imagine the text you read.

A salty tear ran across onto her lips and stained the cracks with its liquid sadness.

• Hyperbole

• Sarcasm

• Imagery

• Allusion

Something that can’t be taken seriously: an over exaggeration.

His teeth were blinding white.

• Imagery

• Hyperbole

• Irony

• Sarcasm

A letter or sound being repeated at the beginning of words.

Pigs are pink.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Idiom

Using sarcasm in a way that you can’t use the literal meaning / an expression or figure of speech.

Raining cats and dogs.

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Anaphora

• Snyecdoche

Repeating consonant sounds.

Tick, tock

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Idiom

Saying something but meaning the exact opposite.

The blind leading the blind.

• Idiom

• Irony

• Allusion

• Oxymoron

Something you don’t really mean.

You are as fat as a horse.

• Symbolism

• Sarcasm

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor