Literary Devices: Figurative Language

A reference to someone or something commonly known from literature, history, religion, or other areas of popular culture.

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

A phrase that means something completely different from what it sounds.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4A

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Personification

A direct comparison using like or as.

• Allusion

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Analogy

The boss is like a lion.

What type of figurative language is this?

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

The tree caught the kite.

What type of figurative language is this?

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

Break a leg!

What type of figurative language is this?

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Idiom

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.1

A direct representation or a comparison where one thing is another

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Onomatopoeia
• Pun

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"I told you a million times, do not exaggerate!" is an example of

• Hyperbowl
• Hyperbole
• Hyperbully
• Hiperbolie

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

A mental picture described using sight, smell, taste, hearing, or touch.

• Imagery

• Illustration

• Imagination

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.2.7

CCSS.RL.2.1