Figurative Language

A joke making the most of the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.

• Idiom

• Pun

• Onomatopeia

• Alliteration

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

• Pun

• Onomatopeia

• Irony

• Alliteration

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1. The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for funny or direct effect.

• Irony

• Alliteration

• Pun

• Oxymoron

Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.

• Pun

• Onomatopeia

• Imagery

• Alliteration

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more forceful or vivid

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

• Metephore

The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

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• Personification

• Pun

• Oxymoron

• Simile

Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

• Hyperbole
• Understated
• Minimized
• Downplayed

An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

• indication
• allusion
• hint
• reference

A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words.

• phrase
• idiom
• proverb
• sentence