Figurative Language

Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects, ideas, or animals.

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

A comparison of two unlike things stating that one thing IS the other.

• idiom

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

A common, often-used saying that isn't meant to be taken literally.

• pun

• idiom

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

A word that imitates the sound it represents.

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

• pun

• alliteration

A humorous play on words that have double-meanings.

• alliteration

• oxymoron

• pun

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5D

A phrase made up of words containing opposite meanings.

• pun

• idiom

• simile

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Repetition of beginning consonant sounds in words that are close together.

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

• pun

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Outrageous exaggeration made to emphasize a point.

• hyperbole

• simile

• oxymoron

• pun

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A comparison of two unlike things using LIKE or AS.

• hyperbole

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is this an example of? My dad snores like a chainsaw.

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4