Figurative Language Vocabulary

Referring to something without mentioning it directly is called...

• alliteration

• allusion

• rhyme

• personification

Comparing two unlike things NOT using like or as is called...

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• allusion

Words made from sounds are called...

• imagery

• alliteration

• allusion

• onomatopoeia

Words or phrases with similar ending sounds is called...

• rhyme

• rhyme scheme

• repetition

• imagery

words or phrases that mean something different than what they actually say

• figurative language

• symbolism

• allusion

• idiom

a comparison using like or as

• similie

• metaphor

• allusion

• onomatopoeia

a comparison that does NOT use the words like or as

• similie

• metaphor

• personification

• oxymoron

a phrase of two or more words that contradict each other

• idiom

• oxymoron

• allusion

• hyperbole

giving human qualities to nonhuman things

• allusion

• symbolism

• similie

• personification

a sound word that lets you hear the sound as you say the word

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• oxymoron

• similie