Figurative Language Vocabulary & Definitions

Which type of figurative language compares two unlike things using like or as?

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What is an extreme exaggeration for effect called?

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which type of figurative language involves the repetition of the same beginning sound/consonant in a series of words?

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which type of figurative language compares two unlike things by saying one is the other?

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which type of figurative language gives non-human things or ideas human qualities or characteristics?

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What type of figurative language uses words that imitate the sounds they describe?

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Which type of figurative language uses an apparent contradiction to reveal a truth?

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

What type of figurative language uses a word or phrase that has a different meaning from its literal meaning?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4