Figurative Language

An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• idiom

A comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things

• personification

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• metaphor

The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words

• simile

• personification

• idiom

• alliteration

A comparison of two unlike things by saying one thing is the other (is, are, was, were)

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

Phrases that people use in everyday language that do not make sense literally, but we understand what they mean

• alliteration

• personification

• hyperbole

• idiom

A word that imitates the sound it represents

• idiom

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Ripley is as lazy as a sloth.

• idiom

• alliteration

• simile

• onomatopoeia

The clouds were cotton balls in the sky.

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• personification

• metaphor

Hiss! Sizzle! Kerplop!

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• alliteration

• personification