Figurative Language Review

Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character

• Mood

• Tone

• Metaphor

• Author's Purpose

Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader

• Tone

• Author's Purpose

• Mood

• Main Idea

The reason the author has for writing. ( Inform, persuade, describe, & entertain)

• Author's Purpose

• Tone

• Mood

• Main Idea

What a piece of writing is mainly about

• Main Idea

• Author's Purpose

• Story details

• Setting

A comparison without using like or as.

• Simile

• Paradox

• Metaphor

• Allusion

A figure of speech that uses extreme exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor.

• Exaggeration

• Pun

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally.

• Idiom

• Pun

• Allusion

• Inversion

The humorous use of play on words, often achieved through the use of words with similar sounds but different meanings.

• Idiom

• Pun

• Simile

• Euphemism

A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art; it does not describe things in detail, rather because it is to something culturally well-known.

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Pun

• Allusion

A comparison using "like" or "as".

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Pun

• Paradox