Figurative Language Review of Terms

Alliteration

• Repetition of the same consonant sounds of multiple words in sequence

• Repeitition of the same vowel sounds of multiple words in sequence

• reference to a well-known person, event, place, piece of literature, etc

• Comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Analogy

• Repetition of the same consonant sounds of multiple words in sequence

• Repeitition of the same vowel sounds of multiple words in sequence

• reference to a well-known person, event, place, piece of literature, etc

• Comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Assonance

• Repetition of the same consonant sounds of multiple words in sequence

• Repeitition of the same vowel sounds of multiple words in sequence

• reference to a well-known person, event, place, piece of literature, etc

• Comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Allusion

• Repetition of the same consonant sounds of multiple words in sequence

• Repeitition of the same vowel sounds of multiple words in sequence

• reference to a well-known person, event, place, piece of literature, etc

• Comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Cliche

• An overused expression of an idea, which has lost its original meaning

• an extreme exaggeration used for effect

• an expression that can't be taken literally because it means something else

• language used to create particular mental images by tapping into the reader's five senses

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Idiom

• An overused expression of an idea, which has lost its original meaning

• an extreme exaggeration used for effect

• an expression that can't be taken literally because it means something else

• language used to create particular mental images by tapping into the reader's five senses

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Hyperbole

• An overused expression of an idea, which has lost its original meaning

• an extreme exaggeration used for effect

• an expression that can't be taken literally because it means something else

• language used to create particular mental images by tapping into the reader's five senses

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Imagery

• An overused expression of an idea, which has lost its original meaning

• an extreme exaggeration used for effect

• an expression that can't be taken literally because it means something else

• language used to create particular mental images by tapping into the reader's five senses

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Metaphor

• a comparison of two different things as being the same WITHOUT using "like" or "as"

• Use of words to imitate natural sounds

• comparison of two things as being the same by using the words "like" or "as"

• when two opposite things are put together for an effect

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Onomatopoeia

• a comparison of two different things as being the same WITHOUT using "like" or "as"

• Use of words to imitate natural sounds

• comparison of two things as being the same by using the words "like" or "as"

• when two opposite things are put together for an effect

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5