Figurative Language Terms

This is a comparison that uses "like" or "as"

• Metaphore

• Simile

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

This a comparison that does NOT use "like" or 'as"

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

Uses descriptions to create a mental image of any of the five senses

• Imagery

• Symbolism

• Figurative Language

• Sound Devices

Giving non-humans human like qualities and characteristics

• Imagery

• Figurative Language

• Personification

• Hyperbole

An exaggerated figure of speech for emphasis/effect

• Personification

• Figurative Language

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

The rise and fall of stressed and unstressed syllables in a pattern or flow

• Rhyme

• Repetition

• Onomatopoeia

• Rhythm

The recurrence of similar ending sounds at the end of words in a line/verse of a poem

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Alliteation

• Repetition

The act of saying the same word or phrase more than once

• Repetition

• Rhythm

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

The succession of similar vowel sounds in the middle of words

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Repetition

The succession of similar consonant sounds in the middle or at the end of words in a line or verse

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Repetition