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A comparison using like or as
What is Simile?
A reference to a famous person, place, or text.
What is an Allusion?
When the opposite of what is expected happens.
What is Situational Irony?
The wind whispered secrets through the trees.
What is Personification?
“Fantastic,” he said when he failed the test.
A direct comparison between two unlike things.
What is Metaphor?
Hints about events that will happen later.
What is Foreshadowing?
Saying the opposite of what one means.
What is Verbal Irony?
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
What is Alliteration?
He was a real Einstein during math class.
What is Allusion?
Giving human traits to nonhuman things.
What is Personification
Two opposite words joined together.
What is an Oxymoron?
When readers know something the characters don’t.
What is Dramatic Irony?
Her smile was as bright as the sun.
What is Metaphor?
The warm scent of cinnamon filled the air.
What is Imagery?
Extreme exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole?
A phrase whose meaning is not literal.
What is an Idiom?
A polite way to say something unpleasant.
What is Euphemism?
He “passed away” instead of “died.”
What is Euphemism?
The lifeguard couldn’t swim.
What is Situational Irony?
Repetition of the same beginning consonant sound.
What is Alliteration?
Words that imitate sounds.
What is Onomatopeia?
Repetition of vowel sounds.
What is Assonance?
The mellow bells echoed softly.
What is Assonance?
We know the villain is hiding behind the door, but the hero doesn’t.
What is Dramatic Irony?