Figurative Language & Literary Devices 2020-21 (AP-Prep)

using human characteristics to describe non-human things such as objects and animals

Example: The wind sang and the trees danced.

• personification

• zoomorphism

• anthropomorphism

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

comparison between two unrelated things NOT using words such as "like" or "as"- an assertion that one thing IS another thing

Example: from Romeo & Juliet: “But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!"

• analogy

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

a word that imitates a sound

Example: BANG!

• sensory details

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

descriptive language that creates a picture in one's mind while reading

Example: The busy squirrels ran through the lush, green trees, chasing acorns and packing them away for colder days.

• imagery

• sensory details

• symbolism

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

gross over-exaggeration for emphasis/effect

Example sentence: I've said that a million times.

• oxymoron

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• irony

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

repetition of beginning consonant sounds.

Example: The fog filtered over the field finally hiding the fence.

• assonance

• consonance

• apostrophe

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

comparison between two unrelated things using "like" or "as."

Example: Jose sleeps like a log.

• metaphor

• analogy

• simile

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

object used to represent an idea or concept

Example: a dove being used to represent the idea of peace

• alliteration

• symbol

• pun

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Using a word or a phrase to mean exactly opposite of its normal meaning.

Example: Calling a boy "Stretch" when he is short.

• satire

• irony

• idiom

• paradox

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

One word sounds the same as another word with different meaning; a play on words

Example: You know a clock is hungry when it goes back four seconds.

• irony

• idiom

• oxymoron

• pun

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A