Enrichment Activity 6: Figures of Speech

An implied comparison between two unlike things that have something in common without using "like" or "as."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

A figure of speech that endows human qualities or abilities to inanimate objects, non-human things, or abstractions.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

A figure of speech that involves the use of a word or phrase that imitates the sound associated with objects or actions.

• Apostrophe

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Addressing an absent person or thing that is an abstract, inanimate, or inexistent character

• Paradox

• Oxymoron

• Metonymy

• Apostrophe

An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally but for the purpose of emphasis.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

A literary device that involves the repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words.

• Assonance

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

A literary device that involves the use of a part to represent the whole or vice versa.

• Synecdoche

• Alliteration

• Metonymy

• Oxymoron

When one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it's closely associated to or when something is described indirectly by referring to things around it

• Synecdoche

• Metonymy

• Oxymoron

• Paradox

A figure of speech that involves an incongruous or contradictory terms appearing side by side, often used for rhetorical effect.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Paradox

• Oxymoron

A statement that appears to contradict itself.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Paradox

• Oxymoron