Figurative Language and Sound Devices

a comparison between two unlike objects not using like or as

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

a comparison between two unlike things using like or as

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

a large exaggeration

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

giving an inhuman thing human qualities

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

expressions that do not mean what they literal say

• hyperbole

• personification

• idiom

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

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

• hyperbole

• personfication

• idiom

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

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.RL.8.4

beginning of words start with the same consonant

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

repetition of internal or ending vowel sounds in words

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• rhyme

repetition of internal or ending consonant sounds in words

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• rhyme