Figurative Language--Sp21

An extreme exaggeration

• Hyperbole

• Assonance

• Repetition

• Understatement

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Repeating a word or a phrase over and over again

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Repetition

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

Similar grammatical structure

• Metaphor

• Connotation

• Parallelism

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

Repeating first letter consonant sounds

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Repetition

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

Words that imitate sounds

• Assonance

• Onomatopoeia

• Tone

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

Comparing two unlike things WITHOUT using the words “like” or “as”

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Paradox

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

Describing something so vividly that the reader can “see” it. (Writing that appeals to the senses.)

• Tone

• Understatement

• Simile

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

The dictionary definition of a word

• Denotation

• Connotation

• Allusion

• Diction

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• Imagery

• Personification

• Connotation

• Internal Rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

Repeating vowel sounds in a word

• Paradox

• Diction

• Connotation

• Assonance