Figurative Language

A comparison using "like" or "as".

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Irony

• Hyperbole

A comparison that does NOT use "like" or "as".

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.

• Irony

• Pun

• Personification

• Simile

An exaggeration

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

When something is written or stated and it is the opposite of what is expected.

• Irony

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

The repetition of a specific sound.

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Sound words.

• Metaphor

• Pun

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

The soldier is as brave as a lion.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

The class was a zoo the day before summer break.

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

The pie called my name begging me to eat it.

• Irony

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Alliteration