Summative 2 Review

A comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• metaphor

• simile

• oxymoron

• allusion

A reference to a famous work of literature, person, or event

• Idiom

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Assonance

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

• Allusion

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

• Assonance

An extreme exaggeration

• Idiom

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperboole

A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as

• Personification

• Idiom

• Simile

• Metaphor

the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

• onomatopeia

• personification

• idiom

• assonance

Repetition of vowel sounds

• allteration

• onomatopeia

• assonance

• idiom

A word that imitates the sound it represents.

• idiom

• allusion

• onomatopeia

• assonance

A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally.

• idiom

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

• simile

A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms right next to each other

• idiom

• oxymoron

• allusion

• metaphor