Figurative Language and Literary Devices

The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Onomatopeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

An object or animal spoken of as if it has human feelings, thoughts or attitude

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Personification

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Overstating something, usually for the purpose of creating a comic effect

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant

to be understood as literally true

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Figure of Speech

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

An expression peculiar to a particular language that means something different

from the literal meaning of the words

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

A comparison between two unlike things using words such as like, as, resembles or than

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Allusion

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

An imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is

said to be another thing

• Analogy

• Simile

• Allusion

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A comparison made between two things to show how they are alike

• Analogy

• Allusion

• Simile

• Figure of Speech

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The use of words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning

• Figure of Speech

• Analogy

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A reference to a statement, a person, place, or an event from literature, the arts,

history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture

• Analogy

• Allusion

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4