Figurative Language

Compares to unlike things using the words "like" or "as

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

When a human trait is given to something that is not human

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

• Personification

The repetition of a beginning sound in a piece of writing

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Simile

Compares to unlike things without using "like" or "as"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

A sound word

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

When something is very exaggerated it is called a

• hyperbole

• idiom

• personification

• alliteration

A phrase that has a meaning different form its literal meaning is an

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• simile

She lit up the room like the sun

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Simile

• Hyperbole

We were busy as bees.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

He was as fast as a cheetah.

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile