Figurative Language

extreme exaggeration for effect

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Hyperbole

• Simile

repeated beginning consonant sounds. Example: The fog filtered over the field finally hiding the fence

• Personification

• Repetition

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

a comparison of two unlike things using "Like" or "As."

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Allusion

a comparison of two unlike things WITHOUT using "like" or "As"

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

giving human characteristics to something non-human.

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Imagery

Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Simile

Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)

• Personification

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

"It's raining cats and dogs outside!" This is an example of...

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Life is a highway. This is an example of a...

• metaphor

• simile

• Imagery

• allusion

Rita heard the last piece of pie calling her name. This is an example of...

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Imagery