Figurative language Flashcards
the repetition of an initial consonant sound.
Alliteration
(O)nce upon a midnight dreary (w)hile I pondered (w)eak and (w)eary
Alliteration
identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words
Assonance
Reese’s Pieces
Assonance
The repetition of consonant sounds ( not initial sounds) - in the middle or at the end of words
Consonance
A House is not a Home Without the Pitter Patter of Kitty Feet
Consonance
An exaggerated statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect
Hyperbole
I’m so hungry I could eat a horse
Hyperbole
A direct comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common
Metaphor
There are plenty of fish in the sea
Metaphor
The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to
Onomatopoeia
BANG
Onomatopoeia
A figure in speech in which opposite or contradictory terms appear side by side
Oxymoron
bittersweet, same difference
Oxymoron
A figure of speech in which an inadement object or abstraction has human qualities or attributes
Personification
the sun smiled down on us, the story jumped out of the page
Personification
A play of words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words
Pun
A salt with a deadly weapon
Pun
A Stated comparison using “like” or “as” between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common
Simile
As fast as a cheetah
Simile
When words are used to stimulate one or more of the five senses
Imagery
the roaring thunder frightened the little boy
Imagery
A thing that stand or represents something else
symbolism
black for evil, white for purity
symbolism
When a part of something represents the whole thing
Synecdoche
“Friends, Romans, countryman: lend me your ears”
Ears represent the whole person listening
Synecdoche
