Figurative Language

When a word sounds like its meaning.

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

When a phrase conveys a figurative meaning that is difficult or impossible to understand based only on its literal interpretation.

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

• Allusion

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

When a writer compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When a writer references a well-known person, place, thing, event, or famous work.

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

When a writer gives an animal or an object qualities or abilities that only a human can have?

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A figure of speech containing words that seem to contradict each other.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Comparing to unlike things by saying that one thing is another thing.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When two or more words close together in a story or poem start with the same consonant sound.

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Using extreme exaggeration to make a point or show emphasis

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

...the sound of the rain falling in tons and avalanches, everywhere and forever.

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A