Figurative Language

When a writer compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

When a writer gives an animal or an object qualities or abilities that only a human can have?

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

Comparing to unlike things by saying that one thing is another thing.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Personification

When two or more words close together in a story or poem start with the same consonant sound.

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Personification

Using extreme exaggeration to make a point or show emphasis

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Bang, pop, gurgle, slap

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

It's raining cats and dogs!

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

• Allusion

The sun smiled after the rain stopped. 

• Personification
• Idiom
• Hyperbole
• Metaphor

She’s as tiny as a mouse.

• Alliteration
• Hyperbole
• Oxymoron
• Simile

When the pitcher finished nine innings, he was hungry enough to eat a horse.

• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Oxymoron
• Idiom