Figurative Language (review)

Comparison of two things, using the words “like” or “as”

• PERSONIFICATION

• SIMILE

• METAPHOR

• IDIOM

Comparison of two things, saying that one thing IS or WAS another thing.

• METAPHOR

• SIMILE

• HYPERBOLE

• ALLITERATION

An exaggeration

• ONOMATOPOEIA

• IDIOM

• HYPERBOLE

• METAPHOR

Giving human characteristics to an object or animal

• IDIOM

• SIMILE

• HYPERBOLE

• PERSONIFICATION

The repetition of the same beginning sounds of words

• ALLITERATION

• SIMILE

• ONOMATOPOEIA

• IDIOM

The use of a word to make a sound

• ALLITERATION

• SIMILE

• ONOMATOPOEIA

• IDIOM

A phrase that has a different meaning than what the words say

• ALLITERATION

• SIMILE

• ONOMATOPOEIA

• IDIOM