Figurative Language Terms

Repeating the same beginning sound in more than two words.

• alliteration

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

An obvious or extreme exaggeration

• personification

• allusion

• idiom

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Words that make a sound

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A comparison between two unlike without using "like", "as" or "than"

• simile

• metaphor

• verbal irony

• synecdoche

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A mild way of saying something harsh or blunt

• anaphora

• synecdoche

• idiom

• euphemism

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Words that express the opposite of what someone really feels or means (sarcasm)

• verbal irony

• idiom

• allusion

• synecdoche

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

A saying that isn't meant to be taken literally

• idiom

• allusion

• euphemism

• verbal irony

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

A comparison using like or as

• metaphor

• assonance

• anaphora

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Giving human characteristics to non-human objects

• anthropomorphism

• personification

• allusion

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A repeated vowel sound

• assonance

• alliteration

• allusion

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4