Figurative Language HOMS

Sound Device: The practice of beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same sound.

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Assonance

• Otomatopoeia

Sound Device: The use of words in which the sounds seem to resemble the sounds they describe.

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Assonance

• Otomatopoeia

Sound Device: The repetition of VOWEL sounds in a series of words.

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Assonance

• Otomatopoeia

Metaphoric Device: a REFERENCE to a pop culture, mythological, literary, historical, or biblical person/event.

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Simile

Metaphoric Device: a comparison between two things WITHOUT using like or as.

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Simile

Metaphoric Device: a group of words ( or saying) that has a different meaning than their LITERAL meaning.

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Simile

Metaphoric Device: a comparison between two different things or ideas using the words LIKE or AS.

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Simile

Metaphoric Device: Giving inanimate (non human) objects human characteristics.

• Personification

• Synecdoche

• Metaphor

• Simile

Metaphoric Device: a part of something is used to signify the whole.

• Personification

• Synecdoche

• Metaphor

• Simile

Ironic Device: A play on words, it may have a serious OR humorous (funny) meaning.

• Verbal Irony

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Pun