Figurative Language Definitions

Figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to make comparisons

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

• personification

• idiom

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Intended exaggeration for emphasis or humor

• personification

• idiom

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

An expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words, but that has a separate meaning of its own

• personification

• idiom

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

The use of words whose meaning is suggested by their sounds

• hyperbole

• personfication

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Language in which human qualities are attributed to an animal, object, or idea

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Figure of speech that implies comparison, but does not use "like" or "as'

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Figurative language is language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4