Figurative Language
An exaggerated statement.
What is a hyperbole?
The use of the same beginning consonant sound in a line or verse.
Alliteration
A comparison in which one thing is said to be another.
What is a metaphor?
A comparison of two words using like or as.
What is a simile?
Peter Piper picked a peck of picked peppers
Alliteration
Giving human qualities to something animals or objects.
What is personification.
A word that imitates the sound it represents.
What is an onomatopoeia.
When a word is repeated several times.
What is repetition.
Words that sound the same but are spelled differently.
What is a homophone.
soft rock, pretty ugly, clearly misunderstood
What is an example of an oxymoron.
An often humorous use of words.
What is a pun.
A word that reads the same forward and backward.
What is a palindrome.
An expression or idea that is overused.
What is a cliché.
Creating pictures for the senses (paining a picture).
What is imagery?
Pop! Bang! Splash!
What is an oxymoron.
What is an adage.
Repeating of the vowel sound in a sentence.
What is assonance.
A figure of speech that references a fictional, imaginary, legendary, mythological kind of person, place, or thing.
Occurs when one thing stands for or represents something else
What is symbolism.
Ate and eight
flour and flower
What is a homophone
An expression that doesn't exactly mean what it says.
What is an idiom.
A popular saying that contains advice.
What is a proverb.
A sentence that contradicts itself and defies logic but may possibly be true.
What is a paradox.
A phrase where two words contradict each other and don't go together.
What is an oxymoron.
She spilled the beans.
What is an idiom.