figurative language

“Cars come and go like frantic ants.”

• personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Allusion

“I tell her of my father’s great herd, and how they would graze each day, walking for miles, the sun in our bones, the grass whispering its shy music.”

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

The west wind dances down the road.

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

The west wind dances down the road.

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

The band played to a small crowd at the concert.

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

They thought he was a wise fool.

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

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

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Oxymoron

Definition: the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby words

• assonance

• alliteration

• personification

• repetition

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

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Idiom

Definition:  

an exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

• allusion

• idiom

• hyperbole

• alliteration