Figurative Language and Sound Devices

a figure of speech where two partnered words seem to have completely opposite meanings

• hyperbole

• personfication

• idiom

• oxymoron

a word that imitates the natural sounds of a thing; it creates sound effect that mimics the thing described

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

beginning of words start with the same consonant

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

repetition of internal or ending vowel sounds in words

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• rhyme

repetition of internal or ending consonant sounds in words

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• rhyme

the repetition of sounds at the ends of words in poetry

• assonance

• consonance

• rhyme

• rhythm

sounds that imitate meanings
(pop, fizz, hiss)

• alliteration

• consonance

• assonance

• onomatopoeia

a comparison of two unlike things using like, as, than, or resembles

• simile 

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

a comparison of one thing as if it were another

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

giving human characteristics to a nonhuman subject

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification