Figurative Language--Sp21

An extreme exaggeration

• Hyperbole

• Assonance

• Repetition

• Understatement

Repeating a word or a phrase over and over again

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Repetition

• Onomatopoeia

Similar grammatical structure

• Metaphor

• Connotation

• Parallelism

• Repetition

Repeating first letter consonant sounds

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Repetition

• Imagery

Words that imitate sounds

• Assonance

• Onomatopoeia

• Tone

• Simile

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

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Paradox

Describing something so vividly that the reader can “see” it. (Writing that appeals to the senses.)

• Tone

• Understatement

• Simile

• Imagery

The dictionary definition of a word

• Denotation

• Connotation

• Allusion

• Diction

Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• Imagery

• Personification

• Connotation

• Internal Rhyme

Repeating vowel sounds in a word

• Paradox

• Diction

• Connotation

• Assonance