Figurative Language Terms

Language that means exactly what is said.

• Literal

• Figurative

• Honest

• Metaphorical

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Which is not a category of figurative language?

• Wordplay

• Sound

• Visual

• Comparison

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or abstract idea.

• Personification

• Idiom

• Anaphora

• Pun

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

A contrast between the result of a situation and what is usually expected.

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Paradox

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

A figure of speech that implies a comparison between two relatively unlikely things.

• Simile

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

An exaggerated statement used to emphasize an idea or make a point.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A comparison between two unlike things using connecting words.

• Metaphor

• Analogy

• Oxymoron

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When the audience or reader know more than the characters.

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Paradox

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

When incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side.

• Paradox

• Oxymoron

• Pun

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

A play on words; sometimes on different meanings of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.

• Pun

• Onomatopoeia

• Euphemism

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A