Figurative Language

Sound words

• alliteration

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

common saying with a meaning completely different than the dictionary meaning

• idiom

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

compares two unlike things and uses like or as

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

• onomatopoeia

when an object is given human qualities

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

extreme exaggeration

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

• hyperbole

compares two unlike things and DOESN'T use like or as

• metaphor

• simile

• idiom

• hyperbole

repeating of beginning sounds

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• idiom

• onomatopoeia