AICE English Lang Figurative Language

Metaphor

• Human attributes, behaviors, and feelings to animals and nature.

• a gross exagerration

• Comparing two unrelated things

• A reference to mythology, history, religion, or literature

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Symbols/symbolization

• Animal attributes and behaviors to humans or ideas 

• A metaphor that extends beyond the original statement

• A recurring idea, concept, image, word, or phrase throughout the text

• • An idea/image/object/etc. that represents something else 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Allusion

• A reference to mythology, history, religion, or literature

• A metaphor that extends beyond the original statement 

• The effect is sarcasm or irony 

• A gross exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Anthropomorphism

• Comparing two unrelated things 

• Animal attributes and behaviors to humans or ideas 

• Human attributes, behaviors, and feelings to animals 

• A reference to mythology, history, religion, or literature 

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Motif

• • A recurring idea, concept, image, word, or phrase throughout the text 

  Personification 

• Visual, auditory, gustatory, olfactory, tactile 

• The effect is sarcasm or irony

• A metaphor that extends beyond the original statement

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Hyperbole

• Comparing two unrelated things 

• A gross exaggeration

• Animal attributes and behaviors to humans or ideas

• • An idea/image/object/etc. that represents something else 

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Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Extended metaphor

• The effect is sarcasm or irony

• A reference to mythology, history, religion, or literature

• Comparing two unrelated things 

• A metaphor that extends beyond the original statement 

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Imagery

• A recurring idea, concept, image, word, or phrase throughout the text 

• An idea/image/object/etc. that represents something else 

• A reference to mythology, history, religion, or literature 

• Visual, auditory, gustatory, olfactory, tactile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Antiphrasis

• A recurring idea, concept, image, word, or phrase throughout the text 

• The effect is sarcasm or irony

• Human attributes, behaviors, and feelings to animals 

• A gross exaggeration 

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Zoomorphism

• A reference to mythology, history, religion, or literature 

• Animal attributes and behaviors to humans or ideas 

• Human attributes, behaviors, and feelings to animals

• An idea/image/object/etc. that represents something else 

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.K.5A