Figurative Language 9 terms

Define Alliteration

• A word or phrase that has become very familiar

• The repetition of usually initial or beginning consonant sounds in 2 or more words or syllables

• A figure of speech in which 2 terms appear to contradict one another

• A figure of speech that compares 2 unlike things using the word "like" or "as"

Define Cliche

• A word or phrase that has become too familiar... kind of stale... not original.

• Giving something human characteristics

• A figure of speech that compares 2 things without using "like" or "as"

• A figure of speech in which 2 terms contradict one another

Define Personification

• a humorous exaggeration

• A figure of speech comparing 2 unlike things using "like" or "as"

• Giving something human qualities

• A word that imitates the sound associated with it

Define simile

• A phrase that doesn't have the same literal meaning as what it says; for ex: it's raining cats and dogs

• A figure of speech in which 2 unlike things are compared using "like" or "as"

• A figure of speech in which two terms appear together but they contradict each other

• The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds i two or more neighboring words or syllables

Define idiom

• A phrase that doesn't have the same meaning as what it says; for ex: it's raining cats and dogs

• A figure of speech in which two terms appear to contradict each other; for ex: jumbo shrimp

• A humorous exaggeration

• A word that imitates the sound associated with it

Define Metaphor

• Giving something human qualities

• A word or phrase that has become very familiar and therefore old and unoriginal

• Comparing 2 unlike things without using the words "like" or "as"

• Comparing 2 unlike things using the words "like" or "as"

Define Onomatopoeia

• Giving something human qualities

• The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables

• A word or phrase that has become very familiar and has therefore lost its originality

• A word that imitates the sound associated with it

Oxymoron

• Comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• A humorous exaggeration

• A figure of speech in which two terms appear to contradict one another

• A word or phrase that has become very familiar... to a point where it is no longer original and kind of boring

Define hyperbole

• A humorous exaggeration

• A phrase that doesn't have the same literal meaning as what it says

• A word or phrase that has become overly familiar to the point where it's losing its originality

• Giving something human qualities