Literary Terms: Figurative Language List

Sounds in word form

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

You're as dumb as a piece of food

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

you are the apple of my eye

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Benny the bull blew bubbles by the bay

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

the sun smiled down on us

• personification

• pun

• hyperbole

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger, then it hit me

• personification

• pun

• hyperbole

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse!

• personification

• pun

• hyperbole

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

the flower blossomed with a kiss from the sun

• personification

• pun

• hyperbole

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

the tree represented hope

• symbolism

• antagonist

• protagonist

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The Joker and Darth Vader are examples of

• symbolism

• antagonists

• protagonist

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D