Figurative Language & Literary Terms Review

Giving human characteristics to something that isn't human

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

TEKS.ELA.4.9B

TEKS.ELA.CW.4A

TEKS.ELA.E1.6B

TEKS.MATH.7.9D

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

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

TEKS.ELA.8.9D

TEKS.ELA.CW.4A

TEKS.ELA.E1.6B

TEKS.ELA.LG.2I

TEKS.MATH.7.9D

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

• theme

• personification

• hyperbole

• message

A word that sounds like what it means.

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• personification

Tags

TEKS.ELA.E1.1C

TEKS.ELA.E1.5F

TEKS.ELA.E2.5F

TEKS.ELA.E3.5F

TEKS.ELA.E4.5F

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

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• alliteration

Tags

TEKS.ELA.E1.6B

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

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• theme

An extreme exaggeration.

• metaphor

• theme

• onomatopeia

• hyperbole