Literary Terms

Figurative Language

100

The comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"

Simile

200

A common word or phrase in a specific culture that cannot be understood literally

Idiom

300

An exaggeration so big that it cannot be true

Hyperbole

400

A word the mimics a sound

Onomatopoeia 

500

When an author gives human characteristics/actions to an animal or object 

Personification