Figurative Language Terms

Comparing two unlike things using words such as "like" or "as"Example: They fought like cats and dogs!

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes

• personification

• idiom

• imagery

• metaphor

Comparing two unlike things NOT using words such as "like" or "as"Example: How could she marry that snake?

• simile

• imagery

• alliteration

• metaphor

imitates a sound

• alliteration

• assonance

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Descriptive language that create a picture in your mind

• imagery

• idiom

• alliteration

• oxymoron

extreme exaggeration

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

• idiom

• alliteration

Words that have the same beginning consonant SOUND (not always the same letter)

• alliteration

• assonance

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation.

• alliteration

• idiom

• figurative language

• simile

An expression whose meaning is different from the meaning of its individual words (not literal meaning)Example: It's raining cats and dogs.

• imagery

• idiom

• simile

• oxymoron

A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.

• oxymoron

• idiom

• hyperbole

• metaphor