Figures of Speech

compares two different things using like or as

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Apostrophe

describes something by saying it is something else

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Apostrophe

uses exaggeration to make a point

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Apostrophe

gives human characteristics to non-human things

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Apostrophe

addressing an absent or non-human entity as if it were a living person

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Hyperbole

• Consonance

• Apostrophe

uses the repetition of sounds at the beginning of words in a phrase or sentence

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Consonance

• Apostrophe

uses identical or similar vowel sounds in words

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Consonance

• Assonance

the repitition of similar consonant sounds at the end of accented syllables

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Consonance

• Assonance

the use of words to imitate sounds of animals or objects

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Consonance

• Assonance

literal dictionary definition

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Denotation

• Assonance