Figurative Language and Literary Terms

Creates a picture in the reader's mind using sensory details

• Simile

• Imagery

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

An indirect comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Irony

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

An extreme exaggeration

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Paradox

Giving human-like traits to inanimate objects or ideas

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Paradox

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

A direct comparison between two unlike things

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

The repetition of similar sounds in a sequence

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Mental or emotional conflict

• External Conflict

• Internal Conflict

• Paradox

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

The author's attitude toward a subject

• Mood

• Irony

• Theme

• Tone

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

A reference to a person, place, or thing in history, another piece of literature, or culture/ society

• Alliteration

• Paradox

• Allusion

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

Represents or suggests a bigger ideas

• Irony

• Dynamic characterization

• Symbolism

• External conflict

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A