Seven Figurative Language Terms

Comparing two things using the words "like" or "as"

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Words that imitate or mimic sounds they represent

• hyperbole

• simile

• onomatopoiea

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.4.5

The use of repeated beginning sounds of words near each other in lines of poetry or sentences

• hyperbole

• personification

• metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

Phrases that are not meant to be taken literally; over time, they have developed their own meaning quite different from the actual word definitions

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Comparing two things without using the words "like" or "as"

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Giving human qualities to non-human things

• alliteration

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Extreme exaggeration used to have an emphasis or effect

• idiom

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Language that expresses ideas in a creative or imaginative manner rather than literally

• expressive language

• fun language

• figurative language

• literal language

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.L.3.5A

This sentence has TWO examples of figurative language. What are they?

The whispering wind danced through the trees.

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

This sentence contains two examples of figurative language. What are they?

I am as mad as a hen when my students go bananas.

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4