Figurative Language Review (TSB)

Descriptive language that appeals to the five senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, smell)

• Allusion

• Imagery

• Symbolism

• Hyperbole

A reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work or work of art.

• Oxymoron

• Imagery

• Allusion

• Symbolism

A nonhuman object is given human characteristics

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

Comparing two things using the words "like" or "as"

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Repetition

One thing is spoken of as though it were something else

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Imagery

A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement

• Onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Pairing two words together that are opposing and/or contradictory

• Imagery

• Repetition

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

The use of words that imitate sounds

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Anything that stands for or represents something else

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

• Repetition

Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• Allusion

• Repetition

• Imagery

• Alliteration