Figurative Language

Alliteration

• A brief reference to to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.

• The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of connected words.

• Makes a comparison between two things using "like" or "as".

• Repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text.

Allusion

• A word that sounds like what it means.

• Makes a comparison without using "like" or "as".

• A brief reference to a real or fictional person, place, event. or work of art.

• A single line of poetry.

Metaphor

• Author's specific word choice

• An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning

• Makes a comparison between two things using "like" or "as"

• Makes a comparison between two things without using "like" or "as"

Onomatopoeia

• A word that sounds like what it means. (pop, bang, click)

• Occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of connected words.

• Central meaning of message

• A unified group of lines in poetry.

Simile

• Makes a comparison between two things without using "like" or "as"

• Makes a comparison between two things using "like" or "as"

• Words that contradict each other

• A single line of poetry.

Symbol

• Repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text.

• A reference to a real or fictional person, place, event, place, or work of art

• The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, in a chucnk of text.

• An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.

Idiom

• The central meaning or message.

• A phrase that is literally does not mean what it says. Very commonly known around the world.

• A reference to a real or fictional person, place, event, place, or work of art

• Use of descriptive words.

Oxymoron

• Comparison between two words using "like" or "as"

• A single line of poetry.

• a figure of speech that combines contradictory words with the opposite meaning.

• A unified group of lines in poetry.

Imagery

• The use of descriptive words to make a detailed image.

• Repetition of words.

• Words that sound like what they mean

• A commonly used phrase which does not literally mean what it says.

Personification

• An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.

• Where an inanimate object is given human-like traits

• A single line of poetry.

• Measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem.