Figurative Language Definitions Review

a comparison of two things using “like” or

“as”

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A direct comparison of two unlike things

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• allusion

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

An animal

given

human-like

qualities or an

object given

life-like

qualities

• imagery

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Words that imitate the sound they are

naming

• ailliteration

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Exaggeration often used for emphasis

• metaphor

• idiom

• imagery

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

a

saying, phrase, or

expression in a

culture that has a

figurative meaning

different from its

literal meaning.

• idiom

• allusion

• onomatopoeia

• symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Consonant letters repeated at the beginnings

of words

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

when a person, place,

thing, or event has

its own meaning but

also stands for

something else

• idiom

• symbolism

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

language that appeals to the senses.

• simile

• symbolism

• imagery

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

a reference; usually to

mythology, literature, the Bible, or history

• allusion

• hyperbole

• simile

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4