Figurative Language I
Making a comparison between two unlike things by using "is"
Metaphor
Repeating the same consonant sounds in words that are close together
When something happens that is the opposite of what you expect
Situational irony
Making a comparison between two things using "like" or "as"
Simile
Billy is as tall as a tree
Simile
A nonhuman thing is talked about as if it were human
Personification
Onomatopoeia
What is said is the opposite of what is meant
Verbal irony
Language that appeals to the five senses
Imagery
The wind was angry that night
Personification
Pun
The pattern of rhymed lines in a poem
Rhyme scheme
When the audience knows something that the characters do not
Dramatic irony
A figure of speech that uses strong exaggeration
Hyperbole
He is a walking dictionary
Metaphor
A combination of words that do not follow grammar rules but has a meaning we understand
Idiom
Repeating the same vowel sounds in words that are close together
Assonance
A soccer player kicks the ball into his own team's goal
Situational irony
A comparison of two unlike things that continues through several lines of the poem
"She eats the sweet treats."
Assonance
A statement that seems to be contradiction but reveals a truth
Paradox
A poem that does not have rhythm or rhyme
Free verse
In the movie Jaws, the characters can't see the shark coming but the audience does
Dramatic irony
All the meanings or emotions that a word suggests
Connotation
I wish I could click my heels together and go home like in The Wizard of Oz
Allusion