Figurative Language

Personification

• A comparison without using like or as

• Words that sound like what they are describing

• Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things

• Extreme exaggeration

Idiom

• A comparison without using like or as

• A figure of speech; what you mean is not what you say

• Extreme exaggeration

• Repetition of consonants at the beginning of words

Simile

• A comparison using like or as

• A comparison without using like or as

• A figure of speech; what you mean is not what you say

• Extreme exaggeration

Hyperbole

• Extreme exaggeration

• Repetition of consonants at the beginning of words

• A figure of speech; what you mean is not what you say

• A comparison without using like or as

Alliteration

• Words that sound like what they are describing

• Repetition of consonants at the beginning of words

• A comparison without using like or as

• Extreme exaggeration

Metaphor

• A comparison using like or as

• A comparison without using like or as

• A figure of speech; what you mean is not what you say

• Words that sound like what they are describing

Onomatopoeia

• A figure of speech; what you mean is not what you say

• Extreme exaggeration

• A comparison without using like or as

• Words that sound like what they are describing