Figurative Language definitions
A comparison using "like" or "as"
simile
Giving a non human thing or animal human characteristics.
personification
This mark indicates that someone is asking.
? question mark ?
A word that sounds like what it's describing
onomotopoeia
Repeated beginning consonant sounds
alliteration
A phrase that means something other than its literal meaning. ex: "It's raining cats and dogs."
Idiom
an exaggeration that couldn't possibly be true.
hyperbole
The ending sounds of words are the same.
rhyme
A phrase where the words contradict each other with opposite meanings.
oxymoron
This mark separates two clauses in one sentence.
; semi colon ;
A comparison of two unlike things that says one thing is another.
metaphor