Figurative Language Definitions

A personification is

• word that sounds like its name

• a comparison using like or as

• extreme exaggeration

• giving human characteristics to a non-living thing

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

A simile is

• a comparison using like or as

• a comparison that calls one thing another thing (not using like or as)

• a phrase that does not mean what it says; usually doesn't make sense

• an object used to represent an idea

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A metaphor is

• repeated first sounds of words

• a comparison that calls one thing another thing (not using like or as)

• a phrase that does not mean what it says; usually doesn't make sense

• a comparison using like or as

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Hyperbole is

• giving human characteristics to a non-living thing

• saying something that makes a situation seem weaker or less than it is

• repeated first sounds of words

• extreme exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Alliteration is

• a phrase that does not mean what it says; usually doesn't make sense

• repeated first sounds of words

• saying something that makes a situation seem weaker or less than it is

• words that sound like their names

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A symbol is

• a comparison using like or as

• words that sound like their names

• a comparison that calls one thing another thing (not using like or as)

• an object used to represent an idea

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

An understatement is

• a comparison that calls one thing another thing (not using like or as)

• a phrase that does not mean what it says; usually doesn't make sense

• saying something that makes a situation seem weaker or less than it is

• giving human characteristics to a non-living thing

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

An idiom is

• a phrase that does not mean what it says; usually doesn't make sense

• extreme exaggeration

• a comparison using like or as

• an object used to represent an idea

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

An onomatopoeia is

• words that sound like their names

• extreme exaggeration

• an object used to represent an idea

• repeated first sounds of words

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5