Definitions 1
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
The stars danced in the night.
What is personification?
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is alliteration?
"He let the cat out of the bag."
Idiom
The use of a word to describe or imitate a natural sound made by an object or action.
Onomatopoeia
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in the beginning.
Alliteration
The slithering snake stalked the small children.
Alliteration
The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
The water was a glove that enveloped the swimmer’s body.
Metaphor.
A phrase or expression that has been used throughout time and has another meaning than what is being said.
Idiom
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
He was as fast as a cheetah.
Simile
The arrogant businessman fired the office worker in his way to the breakroom, not realizing that it was his best employee.
What is irony?
"The boy was a sky scraper, towering over all the other students".
Metaphor
A phrase that shows exaggeration that cannot possibly be true.
Hyperbole
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
"Ugh, you're such a Malfoy"
What is an allusion?
The bee buzzed around my head.
What is onomatopoeia?
Johnny is feeling under the weather?
Idiom.
A word, an image, or anything that somehow represents a larger idea.
Symbolism
A statement which, while seemingly contradictory or absurd may actually be well-founded or true.
Paradox
He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
"Costs an arm and a leg."
What an idiom?
I must be cruel to be kind.
Paradox
A casual reference to a famous historical or literary event, such as Greek and Roman mythology or the Bible.
Allusion