Allusions and Figurative Language

references or hints made to people, place, things, or events from the Bible or mythology. 

• Biblical allusion

• mythological allusion

• literary allusion

• both A & B

an extended simile or metaphor that shows how two things are similar in two or      more ways.

• allusion

• analogy

• alliteration

• assonance

includes figures of speech such as metaphors, simile, and allusions

• syntax 

• details 

• imagery 

• figurative language 

What type of figurative language is used here:  How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle 

• metaphor

• simile

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

What type of figurative language is used: To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.

• internal rhyme

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

By using words that sound like the noises that the bells make, the poet is using _______________.

• onomatopoeia
  Onomatopoeia
  

• repetition

• similes

• assonance

Language not meant to be taken literally but layered with meaning through the use of literary devices is known as

• Sensory language

• Figurative language

• Fiction

• Sarcasm

The world is a stage

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

Giving human characteristics to something non-human is known as

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Irony

The writer or speaker refers directly or indirectly to a person, event, or literature without explanation

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Dialogue

• Inference