Figurative Language

When a word sounds like its meaning.

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• metaphor

When a phrase conveys a figurative meaning that is difficult or impossible to understand based only on its literal interpretation.

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

• Allusion

• Alliteration

When a writer compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

When a writer references a well-known person, place, thing, event, or famous work.

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Idiom

When a writer gives an animal or an object qualities or abilities that only a human can have?

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

A figure of speech containing words that seem to contradict each other.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Oxymoron

Comparing to unlike things by saying that one thing is another thing.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Personification

When two or more words close together in a story or poem start with the same consonant sound.

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Personification

Using extreme exaggeration to make a point or show emphasis

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

...the sound of the rain falling in tons and avalanches, everywhere and forever.

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole