Christmas Figurative Language

A pun is a form of wordplay that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or similar-sounding words, for humorous or rhetorical effect.

Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement that is not meant to be taken literally, used for emphasis or effect.

Personification is a figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract concepts.

Onomatopoeia is a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.

A simile is a figure of speech that compares two different things using the words 'like' or 'as'.

An idiom is a phrase or expression that has a figurative meaning different from its literal meaning.

An allusion is an indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance.

A metaphor is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things by stating that one is the other.

Alliteration is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

An oxymoron is a figure of speech in which two contradictory terms appear in conjunction.