Figurative Language Review (TSB)

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

• Allusion

• Imagery

• Symbolism

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

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

• Oxymoron

• Imagery

• Allusion

• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

A nonhuman object is given human characteristics

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

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

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

One thing is spoken of as though it were something else

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement

• Onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Pairing two words together that are opposing and/or contradictory

• Imagery

• Repetition

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The use of words that imitate sounds

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Anything that stands for or represents something else

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• Allusion

• Repetition

• Imagery

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4