Figurative Language

comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• personification

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

• idiom

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• personification

figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase

• oxymoron

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

extreme exaggeration

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

• alliteration

repetition of initial consonant sounds

• alliteration

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• simile

comparison without using like or as

• alliteration

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

the use of words that imitate sounds

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• alliteration

• hyperbole

common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• oxymoron

• idiom

My life is like a roller coaster.

• A. simile

• B. idiom

• C.hyperbole

• D. metaphor

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Peter Piper picked a pair of peppers.

• A) Simile

• B) Hyperbole

• C) Alliteration

• D) Pun

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