Figurative Language & Literary Terms Review

Giving human characteristics to something that isn't human

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Comparing two things without using the words "like" or as.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The central meaning or dominant message a writer is trying to deliver to the reader.

• theme

• personification

• hyperbole

• message

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

A word that sounds like what it means.

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A comparison that is made using the words "like" or "as".

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• theme

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

An extreme exaggeration.

• metaphor

• theme

• onomatopeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D