Figures of Speech

This refers to the repetition of an initial consonant sound.

• Anaphora

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

This refers to the identity or similarity of sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Epiphora

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

This is the repetition of consonant sounds in the final position.

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Alliteration

• Anadiplosis

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

This is the use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects they refer to.

• Epiphora

• Anadiplosis

• Onomatopoeia

• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Same word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of successive clauses or verses.

• Anadiplosis

• Anaphora

• Epiphora

• Synecdoche

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The last word of a verse or sentence is repeated in the beginning of the next one.

• Anaphora

• Anadiplosis

• Epiphora

• Prosopopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

This is the stated comparison usually using like or as between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Apostrophe

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

This is an implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something in common.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

This is a figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Apostrophe

• Prosopopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

This an extravagant statement or the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.

• Irony

• Sarcasm

• Hyperbole

• Understatement

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6