Figurative Language Vocabulary

-Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

-“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Simile

-States something/someone.

- “is/was” something/someone else.

- “The book is a passport to adventure.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

- A comparison using ‘like’ or ‘as’.

- “ She floated in like a cloud.”

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

An extravagant exaggeration.

- “My backpack weighs a ton!”

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Symbol

Giving human characteristics to ideas and things.

- “Her stomach growled.”

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Metaphor

Object or image that represents an idea ,belief, or something else.

- “The Statue of Liberty symbolizes the idea of liberty.”

• Symbol

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4A

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

Words whose “sound” suggests its meaning. “The bees buzzed.”

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

words that mean something different than the literal meaning

• Figurative Language

• Idiom

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.4.5B

A saying the has a different meaning that what it literally says.

Ex: The homework was a piece of cake.

• Idiom

• Figurative Language

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B