Figurative language

What is a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as"?

• hyperbole

• simile

• oxymoron

What is giving human qualities to animals or inanimate objects?

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

What is a phrase that has two contradictory words?

• metaphor

• personification

• oxymoron

What is an extreme exaggeration?

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

What is a comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as"?

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

What is a phrase that means something different than its literal meaning?

• alliteration

• idiom

• pun

What is a repetition of the same initial consonant letter or sounds?

• pun

• irony

• alliteration

What is a word that imitates the sound that it represents?

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• pun

What is a reference to a well-known piece of literature, artwork, song, event, or person in a work of literature?

• irony

• alliteration

• allusion

what is a "humorous" substitution of words that sound alike but are different in meaning?

• allusion

• irony

• pun