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

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

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

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

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

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

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

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

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

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

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

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

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

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5