Figurative Language

A figure of speech that gives human attributes to nonhuman things or ideas.

• Apostrophe

• Metonymy

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

A figurative language that involves addressing someone or something that is not present in the literary work.

• Apostrophe

• Metonymy

• Onomatopoeia

• Personiffication

A figurative language that repeats the vowel sounds in words that are close to each other in a sentence or phrase.

• Alliteration

• Apostrophe

• Assonance

• Idioms

A figure of speech that uses one word or term to represent another word or term that is closely related.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Metonymy

• Simile

A figure of speech that uses words that sound like the sounds they describe.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

What figurative language used

in the sentence "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain"?

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

What figurative language used in the sentence, "Sally sold seashells by the seashore."?

• Alliteration

• Metonymy

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

What figurative language used in the sentence, "The clock ticked and tocked in the quiet room."?

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Synecdoche

• Simile

What figurative language used in the sentence, "The wind whispered through the trees."?

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Metaphor

• Personification

What figures of speech used in the sentence, "Oh, moon, how bright you shine in the sky tonight!"

• Apostrophe

• Assonance

• Onomatopoeia

• Synecdoche