Figurative Language Review

A series of words all containing, or beginning with the same consonant.

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Simile

Repetition of vowel sounds

• Assonance:

• Alliteration

• Idiom

Running one line of poetry into another without stopping.

• Enjambment

• Alliteration

• Personification

Intentional exaggeration to create an effect.

• Enjambment

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Language that appeals to the five senses (sight, sound, smell, etc...)

• Enjambment

• Imagery

• Simile

• Metaphor

A comparison where something is said to be something else. A = B.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Words are made to sound like the things they describe.

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Enjambment

The bringing together of two opposites. Example: Bittersweet.

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

Non-human things are described as if they were human.

• Enjambement

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

A comparison using "like" or "as".

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification