Poetry Figurative Language and Sound Devices

This type of figurative language is used to compare two unlike things using the words "like" or "as."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

This type of figurative language is uses over-the-top exaggeration to emphasize an idea.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

This type of figurative language gives human characteristics to non-living things, such as an animal, object or idea.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

This type of figurative language is a comparison of two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

The following is an example of what figurative language:

"I've told you a thousand times!"

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

The following is an example of what figurative language:

The gold coins lay on the ground begging for me to pick them up.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

The following is an example of what figurative language:

Life is a highway.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

The following is an example of what figurative language:

She was as cool as a cucumber.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

This sound device is used when words imitate sound.

Pow! Bang! Boom!

• rhyme

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

This sound device is used when there is repetition of sounds at the ends of words.

pale sale whale tail

• rhyme

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• onomatopoeia