Types of Figurative Language

Repeated consonant sounds occurring at the beginning of words or within words.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

This is a reference to a famous work of literature.  It is something that is in most cases widely known by all people.

• Simile

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Pun

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

A form of language that is spoken in a certain place or by a certain group of people.

• Dialect

• Idiom

• Pun

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

An exaggerated statement used to heighten effect.

• Simile

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Dialect

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

This refers to a statement in one language that cannot be matched or directly translated word-for-word in another language.

• Pun

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5B

CCSS.L.4.5B

This is language that appeals to the senses and draws an image, or a vivid picture of a scene or experience, in the reader’s mind.

• Pun

• Imagery

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A figure of speech which compares two unlike things by implying that one thing IS something else.

• Idiom

• Dialect

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

The use of words that mimic sounds.

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A figure of speech which gives the qualities of a person to an animal, an object, or an idea.

• Simile

• Pun

• Alliteration

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.4.10

This is a “play on words.” These involve words with similar or identical sounds but with different meanings, and they are intended to be humorous.

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Pun

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A