Figurative Language

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of neighboring words

• Alliteration

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

using vivid descriptions and figurative devices to create images or pictures in your mind

• enjambment

• personification

• imagery

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

reference to another person, place, event, literary work, etc.

• half rhyme

• irony

• anaphora

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

using language that signifies the opposite of its literal meaning

• irony

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

the repetition of words at the beginning of a clause

• onomatopoeia

• enjambment

• anaphora

• enjambment

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

comparison of two unlike things, equaling one to the other

• consonance

• metaphor

• imagery

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

the repetition of vowel sounds in neighboring words or the end of lines

• assonance

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

the repetition of consonant sounds in neighboring words or the end of lines

• imagery

• epistrophe

• consonance

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

the repetition of ending consonant sounds in nearby words; the consonant sounds are the same, but the vowel sounds are different

• consonance

• near/half rhyme

• metaphor

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

the continuation of a sentence from one line or couplet into the next

• allusion

• anaphora

• enjambment

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4