Figures of Speech

It is the Latin word that means "like" and two things or actions are interlinked.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

It is an implied comparison of two things WITHOUT the use of any comparative word such as "like, so, as"

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The address of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Euphemism

• Apostrophe

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Usage of a softened and milder form of words to give the expression of unpleasant thing

• Metonymy

• Euphemism

• Periphrasis

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

A rhetorical contrast of idea by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses or sentences

• Antithesis

• Fable

• Metonymy

• Parable

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Used in apparently contradicting words and indicates some important hidden meaning

• Metonymy

• Simile

• Antithesis

• Epigram

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Two contradictory words are combined together in order to create an effect and used to reveal a paradox

• Paradox

• Oxymoron

• Apostrophe

• Irony

The use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated

• Irony

• Synecdoche

• Pun

• Metonymy

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

A part is used for a whole or the whole is used for the part

• Synecdoche

• Pun

• Metaphor

• Paradox

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

The naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Apostrophe

• Periphrases

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4