Figurative Language Terms 39-49

A comparison of two different things using like or as

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

A comparison of two different things NOT using like or as

• personification

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance

• alliteration

• allusion

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things

• oxymoron

• personification

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

language not intended to be taken literally but layered with meaning through the use of imagery, metaphors, and other literary devices

• Figurative Language

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Sensory Details

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

a word which imitates the natural sounds of a thing.

• oxymoron

• onomatopoeia

• sensory detail

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

a literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer and more memorable

• onomatopoeia

•  repetition

• alliteration

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

An extreme exaggeration

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

• personifiction

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

a contradictory terms appear in conjunction (opposites paired together)

• onomatopoeia

• allusion

• oxymoron

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

repetition of of the consonant sound in several words that are near each other.

• alliteration

• oxymoron

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4