Figurative Language Terms

Language that means exactly what is said.

• Literal

• Figurative

• Honest

• Metaphorical

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.4D

Which is not a category of figurative language?

• Wordplay

• Sound

• Visual

• Comparison

The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or abstract idea.

• Personification

• Idiom

• Anaphora

• Pun

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

A contrast between the result of a situation and what is usually expected.

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Paradox

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

A figure of speech that implies a comparison between two relatively unlikely things.

• Simile

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

An exaggerated statement used to emphasize an idea or make a point.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

A comparison between two unlike things using connecting words.

• Metaphor

• Analogy

• Oxymoron

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

When the audience or reader know more than the characters.

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Paradox

When incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side.

• Paradox

• Oxymoron

• Pun

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

A play on words; sometimes on different meanings of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.

• Pun

• Onomatopoeia

• Euphemism

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4