ELA Final Study Guide P2

when you use a word or phrase that does not have its normal everyday, literal meaning

• Figurative Language

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Simile

uses the same beginning word sounds over and over, like a tongue twister; or the consonant repetition of sound

• Figurative Language

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Simile

repeated VOWEL sounds in a line (or lines) of a poem or group of words

• Figurative Language

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Simile

are comparisons that use “like” or “as”

• Figurative Language

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Simile

are comparisons that say one thing is another, and does not use “like” or “as” 

• Figurative Language

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Metaphor

is the use of words that imitate sounds

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

giving animals or objects human characteristics

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

is an exaggeration used to make a point

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• word combinations that have a different figurative meaning than the literal meanings of each word or phrase

• are not meant literally

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

use two contradictory words or phrases, usually side by side or close to each other

• Oxymoron (Juxtaposition)

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Situational Irony