Figurative Language Review

a comparison of two things using the words “like” or “as” 

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Irony
• Oxymoron

giving human qualities to animals or inanimate objects

• Simile
• Irony
• Personification
• Oxymoron

an extreme exaggeration

• Hyperbole
• Irony
• Pun
• Oxymoron

a comparison of two unlike things without using the words “like” or “as”

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Pun
• Alliteration

repetition of the same initial consonant letter or sounds

• Idiom
• Metaphor
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration

a word that imitates the sound that it represents

• Idiom
• Metaphor
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration

Her eyes were diamonds; always bright and sparkling!

• Metaphor
• Pun
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration

My coffee was as cold as the snow that was falling outside

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration

The food was calling out to me.

• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Onomatopoeia
• Oxymoron

His feet squished and squashed through the mud.

• Onomatopoeia
• Hyperbole
• Irony
• Oxymoron