Figurative Language & Sound Devices

______ is the use of overstatement or exaggeration.

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

______ is the language that appeals to the senses.

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

______ is an imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing. It does not use the such as like, as, than, or resembles, to express comparisons.

• Imagery

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

______ is a figure of speech in which a nonhuman thing or quality is given human characteristics.

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

______ makes a comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles.

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Symbolism

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

______ is the repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

• Idiom

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

______ is a common expression of words or phrases that aren't meant to be taken literally.

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

______ occurs when a word mimics the sound of the object or action it refers to. When you pronounce a word, it will mimic its sound.

• Simile

• Symbolism

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

______ is a person, place, thing, or event that has its own meaning, but also stands for something beyond itself.

• Symbolism

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

It will take a million years to finish this chapter book.

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Symbolism

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A