Figurative Language

Comparing two things using "like" or "as"

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

2 word phrase that contains opposite words or ideas

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

The intended meaning is not the literal meaning of the words

• Hyperbole

• Similie

• Metephor

• Idiom

An exaggeration that no one will believe to be true

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Giving human characteristics to an animal or object

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

A word to describe or imitate a sound

• onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

• Simile

A comparison without using "like" or "as"

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

A repetition of the same letter or sound

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Idiom

• I was stabbed in the back

• Sally sells seashells by the seashore

• Ouch!

• You are as cool as a cucumber

Simile

• The stars blinked at me

• That is bittersweet

• Laughter is the best medicine

• You work like a dog