FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE by Ela H.

What is a comparison without using the words "like" or "as"?

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

What is an extreme over-exaggeration?

• hyperbole

• idiom

• simile

• personification

What is the attribution of human characteristics to something that isn't human?

• simile

• personification

• idiom

• oxymoron

What is a comparison using the words "like" or "as"?

• simile

• oxymoron

• idiom

• imagery

What is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of two or more words?

• idiom

• imagery

• personification

• alliteration

What is a figure of speech that does not have the literal meaning it implies?

• idiom

• assonance

• imagery

• irony

What is descriptive language, using the 5 senses, especially in a literary work?

• metaphor

• assonance

• imagery

• hyperbole

the use of words to convey a meaning that is opposite of what is actually said.

• irony

• imagery

• hyperbole

• metaphor

resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants (e.g. sonnet, porridge ), but also from the use of identical consonants with different vowels (e.g. killed, cold, culled ).

• assonance

• alliteration

• simile

• irony

informal style of writing generally represent a certain region or time. Example “Ain't” and “y'all”

• direct

• stylistic

• colloquial

• indirect