Figurative Language Terms

States that one thing is something else. It is a comparison, but does NOT use like or as to make the comparison.

• onomatopoeia
• similie
• idiom
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

An indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, or object in history or in a literary work, (literary, biblical, and mythological).

• hyperbole
• imagery
• allusion
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Involves one or more of your five senses - the abilities to hear, taste, touch, smell, and see. An author uses a word or phrase to stimulate your memory of those senses and to help create mental pictures.

• Imagery
• tone
• mood
• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Is giving human qualities, feelings, actions, or characteristics to inanimate (not living) objects

• onomatopoeia
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Is the imitation of natural sounds in word form. These words help us form mental pictures, or visualize, things, people, or places that are described. Sometimes a word names a thing or action by copying the sound.

• Alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• idiom
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

An expression that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words. They are overused expressions.

• Idiom
• mood
• allusion
• tone

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

An author's attitude toward his or her subject.

• metaphor
• tone
• mood
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

Is a comparison using like or as. It usually compares two unlike objects.

• similie
• metaphor
• idiom
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Is the overall feeling a reader gets when reading a story. Tone creates mood.

• Mood
• imagery
• symbolism
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

An indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, or object in history or in a literary work, (literary, biblical, and mythological).

• Imagery
• Allusion
• Personification
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3