Figurative Language

Giving a non-human human-like characteristics.

• alliteration
• hyperbole
• personification
• synecdoche

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Comparing two items using like or as

• metaphor
• oxymoron
• assonance
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Comparing two items NOT using like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A word that is a sound

• onomatopoeia
• pun
• idiom
• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Two words that contradict each other

• oxymoron
• allusion
• hyperbole
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

A commonly used phrase

• idiom
• pun
• oxymoron
• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

An extreme exaggeration

• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• personification
• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A reference to a well-known person, place, thing, or event

• allusion
• illusion
• hyperbole
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Repetition of consonant sound

• alliteration
• assonance
• simile
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Repetition of vowel sounds

• assonance
• alliteration
• personification
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4