Figurative Language Vocabulary

Language that helps to create a picture in the reader's mind.

• onomatopoeia

• imagery

• alliteration

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A commonly used phrase that means something different than the words in the phrase.

• idiom

• alliteration

• rhyme

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things.

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

A comparison of two things using "like" or "as".

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

An extreme exaggeration.

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words.

• personification

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Words that imitate a sound.

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

I spent a year doing my homework last night.

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Words such as ring, crackle, splash

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Life is a rollercoaster going up and down.

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D