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

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

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

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A direct comparison using like or as.

• Allusion

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

The boss is like a lion.

What type of figurative language is this?

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The tree caught the kite.

What type of figurative language is this?

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Break a leg!

What type of figurative language is this?

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Idiom

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

A direct representation or a comparison where one thing is another

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Onomatopoeia
• Pun

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

"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.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5