Figurative Language Practice

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

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

Alliteration example(s):

• 
  Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

• “Here once the embattled farmers stood

  And fired the shot heard around the world."

• 
  How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

• Trick or treat

A comparison of two unlike things, often introduced by like or as

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• symbolism

A brief and indirect reference to a

person, place, thing, or idea of

historical, cultural, literary, or

political significance

• idiom

• personification

• allusion

• onomatopoeia

A _____ is an  exaggeration  or

an overstatement.

• idiom

• symbol

• hyperbole

• hyperbowl

A saying that means something different than what it says

• metaphor

• allusion

• personification

• idiom

An _____ is a word that imitates the   SOUND   it represents.

• simile

• omnomnomnom

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

Representing a thing or idea as a

person in art, literature

• oxymoron

• metaphor

• personification

• allusion

A ____is the comparison of

two unlike things or expressions,

sometimes using the verb “to be,”

and not using like or as (as in a

simile).

• metaphor

• symbol

• simile

• alliteration

the use of a concrete image to represent an abstract idea

• allusuion

• alliteration

• personification

• symbolism