Figurative Language Flashcards
Figurative Language
When Language is used in a non-literal way, usually by making comparisons or using words or phrases out of their usual context.
Irony
Something that happens that is the last thing you would expect to happen.
Alliteration
The repetition of using initial consonant sounds in two or more neighbouring words or syllables.
Cliché
A word or phrase that has become very familiar.
Hyperbole
A humorous exaggeration.
Idiom
A phrase that doesn’t have the same meaning as what it says.
Metaphor
Comparing two things without using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’.
Onomatopoeia
A word that imitates the sound associated with it.
Oxymoron
A figure of speech in which two terms appear to contradict each other.
Personification
Giving something human qualities.
Simile
A figure of speech comparing two unlike things with the words, ‘like’ or ‘as’.
Flashbacks
When a story veers from the present and looks back at a past event.
