Figurative Language

A figurative language device that is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.

• Metaphor

• Anaphora

• Asyndeton

• Simile

What is a Hyperbole?

• Big exaggeration

• Comparing two unlike things

• A statement that doesn't really mean what is being said.

What is a metaphor?

• Using like or as to compare two unlike things

• Comparing two things NOT using like or as

• A form of word play in which the word has a double meaning.

a comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• irony

• personification

giving human qualities to nonhuman things

• personification

• imagery

• hyperbole

• irony

placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts

• juxtaposition

• figurative language

• imagery

• simile

words with sounds that imitate the meaning of what they are describing, i.e. "boom" or "splash"

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• metaphor

the use of language to mean something different or opposite from the literal meaning, often used to create humor

• hyperbole

• irony

• allusion

• simile

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• alliteration

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• idiom

Description that creates a strong sense of familiarity through the senses is what?

• Symbolism

• Oxymoron

• Idiom

• Imagery