E1 - Figurative Language

The attribution of human characteristics to non-human entities

• hyperbole

• personification

• imagery

• pun

The repetition of vowel sounds in non-rhyming words (only two or more words are required)

• consonance

• assonance

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Comparing two unlike things without using the words “like” or “as”

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• pun

An extreme exaggeration

• pun

• imagery

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Comparing two unlike things using the words “like” or “as”

• metaphor

• simile

• pun

• hyperbole

The repetition of the initial sounds of words that are near each other (only two or more words are required)

• consonance

• assonance

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Sounds literally written out as words

• alliteration

• pun

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

Figurative language that is used to appeal to our physical senses of taste, touch, vision, smell, or hearing

• pun

• hyperbole

• imagery

• simile

Repetition of similar consonant sounds within a sentence or phrase (only two or more words are required)

• consonance

• assonance

• alliteration

• personification

A play on words that exploits a double meaning, usually to produce comedic effects

• hyperbole

• pun

• onomatopoeia

• imagery