Figurative Language Definitions

When you give an object "human" characteristics.

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Comparing TWO things using the words LIKE or AS.

• simile

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

When MANY of the words in the sentence begin with the same letter and sound.

• idiom

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Compares TWO things WITHOUT using the words LIKE or AS.

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• paradox

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

Means something different than what is LITERALLY stated.

• idiom

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

The opposite of what seems like common sense yet it is true.

• paradox

• simile

• assonance

• hyperbole

When a sound is repeated throughput a sentence- the sound does not have to be the first letter of the words.

• assonance

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

When words used are opposites.

• assonance

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

• onomotopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

An exaggeration that would not really happen.

• idiom

• alliteration

• assonance

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

The imitation of sounds.

• hyperbole

• antonym

• onomatopoeia

• synonym

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5