Figurative Language

Compares two or more unlike things using "like" or "as"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Allusion

Compares two or more unlike things using "is" or "was"

• Simile

• Pun

• Metaphor

• Sarcasm

a phrase that has two meanings

• Pun

• Idiom

• Allusion

• Analogy

an extreme exaggeration

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Pun

• Imagery

Giving inanimate objects human characteristics

• Personification

• Idiom

• Simile

• Alliteration

Sound Effects

• Pun

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Simile

a comparison between two or more actions

• Analogy

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Simile

when a text references another external text

• Onomatopoeia

• Illusion

• Allusion

• Alliteration

a play on words

• Analogy

• Personification

• Pun

• Idiom

a series of words start with the same letter sound

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Idiom