Figurative Language Terms

What is a simile?

• Comparing two unlike things using as, like, or than

• An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally

• Words that sound like their meaning

• A comparison between two things not using like or as

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1G

Alliteration is...

• an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally

• a comparison using like or as

• repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• Words that sound like their meaning

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

What is hyperbole?

• repetition of consonant sounds

• giving non-human things human qualities

• a comparison of two unlike things

• An exaggerated statement

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison that does not use like, as, or than

• the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• A comparison that does use like, as, or than

• words that sound like their meaning

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

CCSS.L.4.1C

What is onomatopoeia?

• Words that sound like what they mean

• an exaggerated statement

• a comparison using like, as, or than

• an expression not meant to be taken literally (ex. On cloud 9, raining cats and dogs)

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

What is personification?

• Comparing two unlike things

• Exaggeration for comic effect

• Giving some non-human thing qualities of a human is...

• repetition of consonat sounds

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

What is an idiom?

• a commonly used saying whose meaning does not relate to the literal meaning of its words

• words that sound like the things they describe eg 'splash'

• two words that have opposite or very different meanings

• comparing two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5B

CCSS.L.4.5B

What is imagery?

• Repetition of consonant sounds

• Fantasy writing

• Language used to create mental pictures and cause emotions in the reader

• Inclusion of pictures within a text

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

CCSS.L.4.5

Pathetic fallacy is...

• words that sound like the things they describe

• comparing two unlike things

• repetition of consonant sounds

• when a writer attributes human emotions to things that aren't human

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4