Figurative Language with MacGregor

A comparison between two like things that does not use the words 'like' or 'as'.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

A comparison between two things that uses the words 'like' or 'as'.

• Foreshadowing

• Personficiation

• Simile

• Hyperbole

An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Euphemism

A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Allusion

A word that imitates the sound it represents.

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Euphemism

• Simile

Giving human qualities to non-human things.

• Foreshadowing

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Repetition of consonant sounds.

• Simile

• Foreshadowing

• Personification

• Alliteration

Repetition of vowel sounds.

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

The repetition of sounds at the ends of words.

• Metaphor

• Rhyme

• Simile

• Assonance

A play on words that suggests multiple meanings.

• Pun

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Oxymoron