Figurative Language Definitions

a comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• irony

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

a comparison of two unlike things by saying that one thing IS another dissimilar object or thing

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

an exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

• juxtaposition

• idiom

• hyperbole

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

giving human qualities to nonhuman things

• personification

• imagery

• hyperbole

• irony

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

an expression that means something totally different than the the literal interpretation of its words would suggest

• literal language

• idiom

• assonance

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

the repetition of the same vowel sounds inside of words that are close together

• literal language

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

words with sounds that imitate the meaning of what they are describing, i.e. "boom" or "splash"

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What figurative device uses a number of words with the same first consonant sound.

• Pun

• Alliteration

• Irony

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3