What's That Mean?
This figurative device is known as a metaphor.
What is a figurative device that compares common characteristics of two unlikely things by implying that one thing is actually another?
Remember: Metaphors do not use the words “like” or “as.”
This descriptive language used in literature to help the reader clearly imagine what the writer is describing by using words that evoke their senses.
What is imagery?
In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," this figurative device is used every time the poems says, "Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”
What is repetition?
This figurative language is known as a simile.
What is a comparison of two unlikely things using the words “like” or “as"?
The lyrics from this Travis Scott song are an example of this type of figurative language:
"Fein', fein', fein', fein'-fein' (yeah)
Fein', fein', fein', fein'-fein' (yeah)
Fein', fein', fein', fein'-fein'
Fein', fein', fein', fein' (yeah)"
What is repetition?
This figurative device is known as alliteration.
What is the repeating of same beginning sound, or closely related syllables, in a sentence.
For example, Betty Botter bought some butter.
This figurative device is used to compare the characteristics of two unlikely things using the words “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
These lines from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" are an example of this type of figurative language.
"I drink," he said, "to the buried that repose around us."
"And I to your long life" (Poe par. 41-42).
What is verbal irony?
This type of irony refers to when the reader knows something that the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
This line from this Charlie XCX song is an example of this type of figurative language.
"Boom clap, the sound of my heart"
What is onomatopoeia?
This literary device is known as foreshadowing.
What is an author gives hints about what will happen later on in the story?
This figurative device is a form of extreme language that uses exaggeration to intensify the image created in the reader’s mind. It is often humorous and isn’t literally possible.
What is hyperbole?
This line from William Wordsworth's poem of the same name is an example of this figurative device.
"I wandered lonely as a cloud"
What is a simile?
This line is an example of this figurative language.
It's like comparing apples and oranges.
What is an idiom?
This line from this Taylor Swift song is an example of this type of figurative language.
"You were Romeo, I was a Scarlet Letter."
What is metaphor?
This is a literary device known as onomatopoeia.
What are words whose sounds suggest, resemble or imitate the sound of what they are describing?
For example: BANG! BOOM! CRASH!
This figurative device is when the writer gives human characteristics or actions to non-human things such as objects or animals.
What is personification?
This line from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is an example of this type of figurative device.
"Two geological ages later, we heard the soles of Atticus’s shoes scrape the front steps."
What is hyperbole?
A a word or phrase that does not have its normal everyday, literal meaning is known as this.
What is figurative language?
This lyric from this Papoose song is an example of this type of figurative language.
“Ten o’clock Tuesday, Tahoe traveling through traffic"
What is alliteration
This figurative device is known as an idiom.
What is an expression that doesn’t actually mean what the words say: a group of words that, when put together, mean something that is not related to the meanings of the individual words?
This figurative device is when an object, person, or situation represents something beyond its literal meaning. For example, colors, animals, or objects.
What is symbolism?
This line from Patrick Henry's "Speech to the Second Virginia Convention" (1775) is an example of this type of figurative language.
“Experience is the lamp by which my feet are guided."
What is metaphor?
In this Tracy Lawrence song by the same name, this line is an example of this type of figurative language.
"Time marches on, time marches on"
What is personification?
This lyric from this Sabrina Carpenter song is an example of this type of figurative language.
"I slam the door / I hit ignore"
What is imagery?