Figurative Language Review of Terms

Alliteration

• Repetition of the same consonant sounds of multiple words in sequence

• Repeitition of the same vowel sounds of multiple words in sequence

• reference to a well-known person, event, place, piece of literature, etc

• Comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different

Analogy

• Repetition of the same consonant sounds of multiple words in sequence

• Repeitition of the same vowel sounds of multiple words in sequence

• reference to a well-known person, event, place, piece of literature, etc

• Comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different

Assonance

• Repetition of the same consonant sounds of multiple words in sequence

• Repeitition of the same vowel sounds of multiple words in sequence

• reference to a well-known person, event, place, piece of literature, etc

• Comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different

Allusion

• Repetition of the same consonant sounds of multiple words in sequence

• Repeitition of the same vowel sounds of multiple words in sequence

• reference to a well-known person, event, place, piece of literature, etc

• Comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different

Cliche

• An overused expression of an idea, which has lost its original meaning

• an extreme exaggeration used for effect

• an expression that can't be taken literally because it means something else

• language used to create particular mental images by tapping into the reader's five senses

Idiom

• An overused expression of an idea, which has lost its original meaning

• an extreme exaggeration used for effect

• an expression that can't be taken literally because it means something else

• language used to create particular mental images by tapping into the reader's five senses

Hyperbole

• An overused expression of an idea, which has lost its original meaning

• an extreme exaggeration used for effect

• an expression that can't be taken literally because it means something else

• language used to create particular mental images by tapping into the reader's five senses

Imagery

• An overused expression of an idea, which has lost its original meaning

• an extreme exaggeration used for effect

• an expression that can't be taken literally because it means something else

• language used to create particular mental images by tapping into the reader's five senses

Metaphor

• a comparison of two different things as being the same WITHOUT using "like" or "as"

• Use of words to imitate natural sounds

• comparison of two things as being the same by using the words "like" or "as"

• when two opposite things are put together for an effect

Onomatopoeia

• a comparison of two different things as being the same WITHOUT using "like" or "as"

• Use of words to imitate natural sounds

• comparison of two things as being the same by using the words "like" or "as"

• when two opposite things are put together for an effect