Figurative Language Vocabulary Review

a repeated pattern of sound that makes you want to listen; "the beat"

• rhythm

• rhyme

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

when the reader or listener can “picture” what they’re reading in their head

• imagery

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

repeating the same beginning sound in a group of words (like tongue-twisters)

• rhythm

• rhyme

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

repeating the same ending sounds in two or more words

• rhythm

• rhyme

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

words that spell out sounds

• rhthym

• rhyme

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

exaggerating beyond what could be true

• hyperbole

• personification

• idiom

• simile

comparing two unlike nouns using the words “like” or “as”

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• idiom

a commonly-used phrase that doesn’t mean what it actually says

• simile

• hyperbole

• idiom

• personification

comparing two unlike nouns by saying one “is” the other (NOT using the words “like” or “as”)

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

DESCRIBING by giving something human traits that’s not human. not the same as “animation”

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• idiom