Figurative Language in Marigolds

Repeated sounds at the beginning of words

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

reference to well-known things

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

exaggeration

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

popular saying with figurative meaning

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

compares without like or as

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

• personification

sounds like what it describes

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

• personification

pair of words that doesn’t make sense

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

• personification

human traits to nonhuman things

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

• personification

play on double meaning of words

• pun

• simile

• oxymoron

• personification

compares with like or as

• pun

• simile

• oxymoron

• personification