Figurative Language Vocab Warm Up

A comparison between two unlike things using the words “like” or “as.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Repeating the beginning sound of several words in a row.

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The author exaggerates on purpose for effect.

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

_____a figure of speech in which two a things are compared, NOT using like or as 

• Simile 
• Metaphor 
• Personification 
• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

An author refers to something, someone, or somewhere famous.

• Oxymoron

• Idiom

• Allusion

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A word that represents a sound.

• Rhyme

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Two or more words have the same end sound.

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Giving a nonhuman thing human characteristics or abilities

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A common figure of speech that does not make sense based on the meaning of the words of the sentence. You have to already know what it means.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Rhyme

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Two words that mean opposite things are put together to create a new meaning.

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Oxymoron

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A