Figurative Language Notes: Fill in the Blank

Simile

• Comparison using like or as

• Example:

• “Your eyes are as blue as the

sky”

• “Life is like a box of

chocolates”

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Metaphor

• Comparison NOT

using like or as

• Example: “Baby

you’re a firework”

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Exaggerated statement

to make a point

Example:

“I’m so hungry I

could eat a horse”

“Our love will last for

an eternity

Hyperbole

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IDIOM

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• An expression that cannot be understood

from the meanings of its separate words but
that has a separate meaning

• Example: “He has ants in his pants”

Personification

• Giving human

characteristics to
inanimate objects

• Example: The sun

smiled down on me
today

Onomatopoeia

• A word that imitates

the sound it
represents

• Example: Drip..Drip
Buzz

Oxymoron

Apparently
contradictory terms
appear in conjunction

Example: “Deafening
silence”

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ALLITERATION

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• Having the same beginning consonant sound

in several words in succession.

• Example: “Peter Piper
picked a peck of pickled
peppers”

Assonance

• The repetition of vowel sounds

to create internal rhyming
within phrases or sentences

• Example: I made my way to

the lake that day

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Allusion

• A casual reference to a

famous historical or
literary figure or event

• Example: If it doesn’t

stop raining, I’m going
to build an ark.

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​a reference to:
- historical person or event
- mythology
- Biblical stories or other religions
- art
- literature

IMAGERY

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• The use of vivid or descriptive
• language to represent objects,
• actions, or ideas.

• Example: “ As they sat on the soft, sugary sand

beach waiting for the sunset, the sinking sun
shimmered on the water as the blue sky transformed
into various shades of purple and pink.”

Repetition

• Repeating a word,

phrase, or sentence –
used to add
emphasis or show
importance

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