Figurative Language

comparison of two unlike things

• simile

• rhyme

• metaphor

• meter

compares two things using "like" or "as"

• meter

• rhyme

• metaphor

• simile

words whose endings sound the same

• rhyme

• meter

• simile

• metaphor

an arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

• simile

• rhyme

• meter

• metaphor

giving something human traits

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

expressions or phrase that do not mean what they say

• idiom

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

sound words

• simile

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

big exaggeration

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• idiom

beginning letter of each word is the same

• alliteration

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

"It is raining cats and dogs" is an example of _________.

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• personfiction

• idioms