Figure of Speech

It is an explicit or direct comparison between two things of different classes.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Synecdoche

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

It is bolder than simile and the comparison is implied or indirect between two objects of different classes

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Synecdoche

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A figure of speech that gives human qualities or attributes to non-human or inanimate object.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Synecdoche

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

It names a part of an object to stand for the whole, or the whole for a part.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Synecdoche

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

It involves the use of a term connected with an object to represent that object.

• Metonymy

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Parodox

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

It involves a deliberate exaggeration used for effect.

• Metonymy

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Paradox

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

It is putting side by side of two normally contradictory words.

• Metonymy

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Paradox

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

It is saying something which seems untrue, but on close examination, proves to be true or partly true.

• Metonymy

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Paradox

It is a casual reference either by directly or by borrowing familiar phrases from the bible, history or literature.

• Allusion

• Irony

• Onomatopoeia

• Litotes

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

It involves a contrast, a discrepancy between the expected and what actually happens.

• Allusion

• Irony

• Onomatopoeia

• Litotes

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A