FHS Figurative Language Review Part II

giving human qualities or characteristics to nonhuman
objects

• cliche'

• understatement

• parallelism

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

a commonly used expression that has an implied
meaning that is not literal

• metaphor

• idiom

• alliteration

• flashback

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

deemphasizing something in order to
make its importance less than

• idiom

• understatement

• oxymoron

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

a play on words that are similar in sound but different in meaning

• diction

• mood

• pun

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

an extreme exaggeration for rhetorical effect

• figurative languagae

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• juxtaposition

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

the repeating of a beginning sound, not letter, in a series of
words

• parallelism

• repetition

• alliteration

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a general feeling that is created by the tone, usually described in
expressions of feeling and emotions

• tone

• diction

• anecdote

• mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the five
senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch

• figurative language

• imagery

• cliche'

• foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

the use of subtle details or clues which hint at
upcoming events in a novel

• foreshadowing

• flashback

• oxymoron

• understatement

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

a writer presents events from the past
within a narration of current events

• sensory description

• hyperbole

• flashback

• foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5