Figurative Language Definitions

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

• Figurative Language

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

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

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

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

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

• Personification

• Figurative language

• Hyperbole

• Literal Language

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

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

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

 saying exactly what you mean

• Literal Language

• Personification

• Figurative Language

• Onomatopoeia

giving human characteristics to things that are not human.

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

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

• Alliteration

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

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

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• idiom