Figurative Language Vocab

A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.

• allusion

• personification

• oxymoron

• synecdoche

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

• allusion

• allegory

• paradox

• oxymoron

Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader

• oxymoron

• idiom

• mood

• irony

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

A person, place or object which has a meaning in itself but suggests other meanings as well

• tone

• synechdoche

• oxymoron

• symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A contrast between expectation and reality

• mood

• irony

• idiom

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

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

• idiom

• simile

• irony

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

the use of words that imitate sounds

• metaphor

• alliteration

• oxymoron

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

A comparison without using like or as

• metaphor

• simile

• allusion

• irony

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

a humorous play on words

• metaphor

• irony

• pun

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa

• oxymoron

• assonance

• synechdoche

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4