Figurative Language Definitions

an exaggeration so dramatic, no one could believe it; overstate to emphasize a point.

• Figurative Language

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

comparing two unlike things without using like or as.  Calling one thing, another.  Saying one thing is something else.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

the use of a word to describe or imitate a natural sound made by an object or action.  Words that sound like what they mean.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

you are not saying exactly what you mean by comparing, exaggerating, or understanding a situation. 

• Personification

• Figurative language

• Hyperbole

• Literal Language

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

the repeating of the same letter or sound, especially consonant sounds

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Phrases that mean more than their words put together. If you take them word for word, they might not make much sense!

• Idiom

• Personification

• Simile

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

 saying exactly what you mean

• Literal Language

• Personification

• Figurative Language

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

giving human characteristics to things that are not human.

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

words or phrases in which contradictory or opposite terms are used together

• Alliteration

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

comparing two unlike things using “like” or “as”

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.8.6