MAAP Resource Book Figurative Language Section 4

a comparison of two things that uses the word like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• euphemism

an extended simile or metaphor that shows how two things are similar in several ways

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• personification

• analogy

words of phrses that are inoffensive or kinder to replace offensive, harsh, or hurtful ones

• analogy

• simile

• oxymoron

• euphemism

an expression that combines contradictory words

• oxymoron

• personification

• paradox

• idiom

an exaggeration

• simile

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

• analogy

an expression that means something different frm the literal definition of the words in the expression

• analogy

• idiom

• hyperbole

• repetition

a piece of cake--something is easy to do

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• euphemism

passed away

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• euphemism

This is an example of ...

• analogy

• metaphor

• simile

• euphemism

This is an example of...

• euphemism

• personification

• oxymoron

• metaphor