Figurative Language

This figurative language compares two things using like or as

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

This type of figurative language describes something inhuman as if it were human, giving it human characteristics (e.g. Sadness seized me in its clutches)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

This type of figurative language occurs when you exaggerate a great deal (e. g. "I am starving" instead of "I'm feeling a little hungry")

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

This just refers to a saying that is common that means something different from what it literally says, like (I'm pulling your leg). These can be super difficult for people learning English!

• Idiom

• Imagery

• Allusion

• Repetition

This type of figurative language occurs when you refer to something outside of the text (like if you reference a mythical creature in your short story)

• Idiom

• Imagery

• Allusion

• Repetition

"Love is like a red, red rose" is BEST labeled...

• A simile

• Imagery

• Allusion

• A metaphor

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul" is an example of...

• A simile

• A metaphor

• An allusion

• Imagery

The song lyric, "I would walk 500 miles, And I would walk 500 more, Just to be the man who walked 1,000 miles to fall down at your door," is BEST described as an example of...

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

Which of the following is NOT an example of alliteration?

• Krispy Kreme

• She sells sea shells by the seashore

• Purple people eater

• English class will help me communicate.

Onomatopoeia is...

• a word that sounds like the sound it represents

• exaggeration for effect

• repetition of consonant sounds at the start of adjacent words

• Bananas