Figurative Language definitions & examples

What is a comparison of two unlike things saying that one IS the other?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What are words or phrases that are not literal; that exaggerate or alter the usual meanings of the individual words?

• figurative language

• clauses

• illusions

• commands

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What is a comparison of two unlike things using "like" "as" "resembles" or "than"?

• oxymoron

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a gross exaggeration that cannot possibly be true?

• personification

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

When human qualities are assigned to nonhuman things, it is ...

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A group of words whose meaning is quite different from the literal meaning of the words is ...

• idiom

• alliteration

• oxymoron

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

A reference to a person, place, or event from literature, sports, history, movies, or the arts is called ...

• idiom

• allusion

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

When the initial consonant sound is repeated in a series of words, it is called ...

• oxymoron

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

When a word suggests or makes its own sound, it is ...

• onomatopoeia

• allusion

• alliteration

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A phrase with words that contradict each other is ...

• alliteration

• allusion

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A