Figurative Language and Sound Devices Definitions

Giving human traits to objects or ideas

• Personification

• Rhyme

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

States that one thing is something else. But does not use “like” or “as”

• Simile

• Personification

• Assonance

• Metaphor

when words end in same sounds

• Rhyme

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

The imitation of natural sounds in word form

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Assonance

• Simile

a strong, regular, repeated pattern of sounds

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

• Rhythm

Exaggerating to show strong feeling or effect

• Rhythm

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Assonance

repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Assonance

• Metahpor

Comparison of two things using “like” or “as”

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

the repetition of the initial consonant letter or sound

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Personification

Words or phrases are repeated for emphasis

• Simile

• Repetition

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia