Figurative Language

the use of words that imitate sounds

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Simile

the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

• idiom

• alliteration

• personification

comparing two things using like or as

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

the repetition of beginning consonant sounds in words

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Idiom

comparing two things WITHOUT using like or as

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

an expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally.

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

an extreme exaggeration

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Idiom