Figurative Language

Using the repetition of consonant sounds

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

A comparison of two unlike things not using "like" or "as"

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Words that imitate real sounds

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Metaphor

When an object is given human characteristics

• Simile

• Idiom

• Personification

• Hyperbole

A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

A very exaggerated statement used for effect

• Simile

• Onomoatpiea

• Hyperbole

• Personification

An explanation whose meaning is different than its individual words.

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

That's the way the cookie crumbles!

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

I am so hungry I could eat a horse!

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

Dad's alarm clock screams at him to wake up in the morning.

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Idiom