Figurative Language

a comparison of two things using the words 'like' or 'as.'

• Idiom

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

when you give human qualities to something that isn't human

• Simile

• Onomatopeia

• Hyperbole

• Personification

figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn’t literally true and helps make a comparison (without using 'like' or 'as')

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

a phrase that actually means something different from its literal meaning

• Idiom

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Pun

a word that names a sound, but also sounds like that sound

• Metaphor

• Pun

• Alliteration

• Onomatopeaia

a literary term that represents a word or a phrase that is said to avoid saying something that might sound offensive.

• Euphemism

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Pun

a figure of speech you use when you want to exaggerate what you mean or emphasize a point

• Metaphor

• Pun

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopeaia

a phrase made of two or more words that actually have opposite meanings

• Pun

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

A pun is a form of wordplay that makes use of the multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, to create a humorous or rhetorical effect

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Oxymoron

• Pun