Figurative Language
Figurative Language Ex.
Vocabulary
100

A comparison of two unlike things using like, as, or resembles.

Simile

100

I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse.

Hyperbole

100

Relates to the arrangement of lines and rhyme patterns.

Form

200

A comparison of two unlike things without using like, as, or resembles.

Metaphor

200

The snow was like a light bulb.

Simile

200

A single unit in a poem.

Stanza
300

Giving a non-human human like characteristics.

Personification

300

Her heart is gold.

Metaphor

300
Reflects a poet's attitude toward a subject.

Tone

400

An extreme exaggeration. 

Hyperbole

400

You could tell that the plants were begging for water.

Personification

400

Creates images in the reader's mind.

Imagery

500

Saying something when you mean something different.

Idiom

500

It's raining cats and dogs.

Idiom

500

The literal definition of a word.

Denotation