Figurative Language

a comparison made by calling one thing another that does not use like or as

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

common expressions in which the words mean something different from their literal meaning

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Idiom

a comparison made using the words “like” or “as”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

exaggerated statements not meant to be taken literally

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personfication

a word that mimics a sound

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Alliteration

the repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

giving human characteristics to something that is not human

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Idiom