Figurative Language

figurative language

• a comparison of two things using like or as

• repetition of initial consonant sounds

• the language used by writers to produce images in readers' minds and to express ideas in fresh, vivid, and imaginative ways

simile

• a comparison of two things using like or as

• extreme exaggeration

• a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

hyperbole

• the use of words that sound like what they mean, such as "hiss," "buzz," "slam," and "boom"

• extreme exaggeration

• language used by writers to produce images in readers' minds and to express ideas in fresh, vivid, and imaginative ways

alliteration

• extreme exaggeration

• repetition of initial consonant sounds

• a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

personification

• a comparison of two things using like or as

• a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

• the use of words that sound like what they mean, such as "hiss," "buzz," "slam," and "boom"

idiom

• a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

• the language used by writers to produce images in readers' minds and to express ideas in fresh, vivid, and imaginative ways

• an expression having a special meaning different from the usual meanings of the words (example "up the creek without a paddle" means a situation involving trouble)

onomatopoeia

• repetition of initial consonant sounds

• an expression having a special meaning different from the usual meanings of the words (example "up the creek without a paddle" means a situation involving trouble)

• the use of words that sound like what they mean, such as "hiss," "buzz," "slam," and "boom"

metaphor

• A way of saying something is something else without using like or as

• an expression having a special meaning different from the usual meanings of the words (example "up the creek without a paddle" means a situation involving trouble)

• the language used by writers to produce images in readers' minds and to express ideas in fresh, vivid, and imaginative ways

end rhyme

• words that have the same end sound

• words that do not have the same end sound

• extreme exaggeration

internal rhyme

• words with the same end sound

• repetition of initial consonant sounds

• word within the line of poetry that rhymes with the last word in the line of poetry