Figurative Language

A comparison of two different things using the word “like” or “as.”

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Understatement

A comparison of two different things without using the word “like” or “as.”

• Understatement

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

Giving human traits to objects or ideas.

• Understatement

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Alliteration

Exaggerating to express a strong feeling

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Understatement

• Idiom

Expression with less strength than expected.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Understatement

The opposite of hyperbole.

• Understatement

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Simile

_________ Language = words that function exactly as defined (mean what they say)

• Literal

• Figurative

___________ Language = You have to figure it out.

• Literal

• Figurative

Identify the type of figurative language:

“Food?”  Chris inquired, popping out of his seat like a toaster strudel.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Identify the type of figurative language:

His cotton candy words did not appeal to her taste.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Understatement