The Highwayman Figurative Language Review

A writing technique where an author compares two unlike things using the words like or as

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

A writing technique where an author compares two unlike things without using the words like or as

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

A writing technique where an author uses an extreme or impossible exaggeration for emphasis or humor

• hyperbole

• personfication

• allusion

• idiom

A writing technique where an author uses descriptive adjectives to create word pictures that appeal to a reader's senses

• allusion

• idiom

• imagery

• irony

A writing technique where an author has something happen that is unexpected or the opposite of what would be expected

• allusion

• situational irony

• symbolism

• foreshadowing

A writing technique where an author gives readers information that one or more of the characters doesn't have to create suspense or a drama

• allusion

• symbolism

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

A writing technique where an author repeats the same beginning sound in two or more words

• alliteration

• end rhyme

• onomatopoeia

• internal rhyme

A writing technique where an author uses a word that imitates a sound

• allusion

• alliteration

• end rhyme

• onomatopoeia

A writing technique where an author gives readers clues or hints about what will happen later

• situational irony

• foreshadowing

• allusion

• idiom

A writing technique where an author has a word at the end of a line have the same end sound as a word at the end of another line

• alliteration

• idiom

• rhyme scheme

• onomatopoeia