Figures of Speech

Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally; commonly known as figures of speech is called

• simile
• figurative language
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things is 

• idiom
• hyperbole
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A comparison of two unlike things using the words 'like' or 'as' is called

• personification
• simile
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in the series of words is called

• allusion
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a reference to a person, place or event from history, literature, sports or the arts is called

• allusion
• metaphor
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A group of words whose collective meaning is very different from their literal meaning (like it is raining cats and dogs)

• simile
• idiom
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Words that imitate sounds

• metaphor
• onomatopeia
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

• hyperbole
• personification
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A comparison of two unlike things by saying one is like the other

• simile
• personification
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

This is a picture of an exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

• hyperbole
• allusion
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4