Figurative Language and Sound Devices Definitions

Giving human traits to objects or ideas

• Personification

• Rhyme

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

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

• Simile

• Personification

• Assonance

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

when words end in same sounds

• Rhyme

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

The imitation of natural sounds in word form

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Assonance

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

a strong, regular, repeated pattern of sounds

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

• Rhythm

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Exaggerating to show strong feeling or effect

• Rhythm

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Assonance

• Metahpor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

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

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

the repetition of the initial consonant letter or sound

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Words or phrases are repeated for emphasis

• Simile

• Repetition

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4