Figurative Langauge Vocabulary

a figure of speech that makes a reference to a place, person, or event.

• alliteration

• allusion

• idiom

• noun

A commonly used expression of figurative language.

They are often cultural and do not make sense literally.

• Idiom

• Alliteration

• Figurative Langauge

• Tongue Twister

Giving an object human like characteristics or qualities

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• idiom

words often use for sound effects, often sound like what they mean.

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

• onomatopoeia

The repitition of the first letter or sound in a group of words

• reptition

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• allusion

an exaggeration usually for humor or dramatic effect

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

a comparison of two unlike things without using like or as

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• simile

• alliteration

a comparison of two things using like or as

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• metaphor

the "paragraphs of poetry" ; a collection of lines in a poem, broken by a line break

• stanza

• poem

• idiom

• cat

Which type of figurative language is this? It took me 20 hours to do my homework last night.

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• idiom