Figurative Language

Comparing two unlike things by saying one thing is the other. Metaphors do NOT use like or as

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personifcation

When words (three or more) in the same line start with the same beginning consonant sound. This is similar to a tongue twister.

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

When words (three or more) in the same line start with the same beginning consonant sound. This is similar to a tongue twister.

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

giving human qualities to a non human / non living object

• Personifcation

• Simile

• Idiom

A word that forms a sound associated with its name

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

An exaggerated statement

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Alliteration

A group of words that does not literally mean what it says

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Comparison of two unlike things using like or as (and sometimes than)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personifcation

The car complained as it made its way up the hill in the summer heat.

• Simile

• Personifcation

• Metaphor

The class was walking on air when they won the contest.

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia