Heather Phillips and Figurative Language

A comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• alliteration

Giving something that is not a human human qualities

• hyperbole

• allusion

• oxymoron

• personification

Big exaggeration, usually involves humor

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• idiom

• personification

a phrase or expression whose meaning can't be understood from the ordinary meanings of the words in it

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• hyperbole

• metaphor

A reference to a famous person, place, or event

• oxymoron

• simile

• alliteration

• allusion

A direct comparison between two unlike things.

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• imagery

The repetition of a sound in a sentence or a series of sentences

• alliteration

• allusion

• idiom

• metaphor

a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (beside each other)

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

• allusion

A word that mimics a sound

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• personification

The crash was a pretty ugly sight to see.

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• personification

• simile