Figurative Language

A comparison using like or as

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

A direct comparison without using like or as

• Simile

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

the repeating of beginning consonant sounds

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Idiom

An extreme exaggeration

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Metaphor

A common phrase that means the opposite of what the words say

• Irony

• Allusion

• Imagery

• Idiom

Words that create a mental image using one of the 5 senses

• Idiom

• Allusion

• Imagery

• Irony

A word that makes a sound

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Idiom

Giving human traits to non-human things

• Irony

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

My computer throws a fit every time I try to use it.

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

The clouds are cotton balls in the sky.

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Personification