Figurative Language and irony

A _________uses a reference to a person, place, thing, or event from history, literature, mythology, science, sports, or the arts to describe something.

• Personification

• irony

• allusion

• hyperbole

A ______________makes an indirect comparison between two things using words such as like or as.

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• assonance

A ___________________ makes a comparison between two distinctly different things WITHOUT using an linking words.

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

_________________ is language that gives human-like characteristics to non-human things.

• assonance

• personification

• idiom

• imagery

____________________ is language that uses overstatement or exaggeration to communicate emotion or create a comic effect.

• simile

• imagery

• idiom

• hyperbole

__________________is using words that sounds like the word they are describing.

• onomatopoeia

• irony

• metaphor

• personification

__________________is the repetition of initial consonant sounds that are close in order to achieve a particular effect.

• assonance

• allusion

• alliteration

• idiom

________________ is language that appeals to the five sense: sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste.

• onomatopoeia

• imagery

• idiom

• metaphor

________________ is the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds that are close together to achieve a particular effect.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• idiom

• personification

A _____________ is a word or phrase that means something different than it's literal meaning but can be understood due to its popular use.

• imagery

• alliteration

• idiom

• simile