Figurative language unit test#1

Idiom

• Meaning different

• Meaning different from the meaning of its individual words

• A play on words

• Conjoining contradictory terms(as in'deafening silence')

Personification definition

• A figure of speech

• A word that imitates the sound it represents

• A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes

• Repetition of initial constant sounds

Simile

• Comparison using "like" or "as"

• Comparison using "live" or "as"

• A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way.

• Acompasion of too diffrent things that are simliar in some way

Hyperbole

• Extreme exageration

• Extreme exaggeration

• A word that imitates the sound it represents

• A play on words

Pun

Alliteration

• Repetition of initial constant sounds

• A word that imitates the sound it represents

• Minute as day: week

• A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way

Analogy

• Repetition of initial constant sounds

• A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way

• Minute as day: week

• Meaning diffrent

Onomatopoeia

Oxymoron

• Conjoining contradictory terms

• Conjoining

  contradictory terms(as in'deafening silence')

• A word that imitates the sound it represents

• Meaning different

Allusion

• A reference

• A reference to a famous person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

• Repetition of consonant sounds

• Repetition