Figurative Language

A figure of speech in which two essentially dissimilar objects or concepts are compared with one another with the use of “like” or “as

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two dissimilar things without the express use of “like” or “as.”

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

A figure of speech in which an idea or thing is given human attributes and/or feelings or is spoken of as if it were human

• Idiom

• Understatement

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A boldly overstated or exaggerated claim or statement that adds emphasis without the intention of being literally true

• Allusion

• Understatement

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A figure of speech employed by writers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is

• Understatement

• Imagery

• Simile

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

A brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Allusion

• Metaphor

The use of language to evoke a sensory experience or create a picture with words for a reader

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.W.8.3D

A word that imitates the natural sounds of a thing

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

The repetition in two or more nearby words of initial consonant sounds

• Idiom

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A saying or expression that is widely used among speakers of a certain language and whose figurative meaning is different from its literal meaning

• Idiom

• Personification

• Imagery

• Understatement

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4