Figurative Language Vocabulary

Language that helps to create a picture in the reader's mind.

• onomatopoeia

• imagery

• alliteration

• personification

A commonly used phrase that means something different than the words in the phrase.

• idiom

• alliteration

• rhyme

• personification

Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things.

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

A comparison of two things using "like" or "as".

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

An extreme exaggeration.

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words.

• personification

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• metaphor

Words that imitate a sound.

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• personification

• onomatopoeia

I spent a year doing my homework last night.

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Words such as ring, crackle, splash

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Life is a rollercoaster going up and down.

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia