Figurative Language Test Review

language that creates vivid pictures in the reader's minds

• simile

• oxymoron

• pun

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

two words, back-to-back, that contradict each other

• oxymoron

• metaphor

• pun

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

an extreme exaggeration or overstatement, used for effect

• personification

• paradox

• hyperbole

• alliteration

an implied comparison between two unlike items that does NOT use like or as

• metaphor

• symbolism

• idiom

• internal rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.RI.5.4

a comparison between two unlike items that uses like or as

• paradox

• oxymoron

• onomatopoeia

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

a passage from a poem that seems to contradict itself

• personification

• paradox

• idiom

• imagery

when a poet gives an inanimate object human-like qualities

• hyperbole

• paradox

• personification

• alliteration

using a concrete object, person or place to represent an abstract concept

• symbolism

• pun

• oxymoron

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

words, such as homophones, with a humorous double meaning; a play on words

• analogy

• allusion

• idiom

• pun

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

expressions that have a meaning apart from the meanings of their individual words

• imagery

• symbolism

• idiom

• pun

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A