Figurative Language and Sound Devices

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

• hyperbole

• personfication

• idiom

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

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

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

beginning of words start with the same consonant

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

repetition of internal or ending vowel sounds in words

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

repetition of internal or ending consonant sounds in words

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

the repetition of sounds at the ends of words in poetry

• assonance

• consonance

• rhyme

• rhythm

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

sounds that imitate meanings
(pop, fizz, hiss)

• alliteration

• consonance

• assonance

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

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

• simile 

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

a comparison of one thing as if it were another

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

giving human characteristics to a nonhuman subject

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4