Figurative Language definitions

an extreme exaggeration

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• simile

• personification

a direct comparison of two unlike things

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

when the same sound is used at the beginning of many words in a sentence

• idiom

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• simile

a common saying with a meaning completely different from its dictionary meaning 

• metaphor

• onomatopeia

• alliteration

• idiom

a comparison of two unlike things, using the words like or as

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

a word that represents a sound

• alliteration

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

when an object is given human qualities

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom