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A comparison of two things using like or as.
Simile
A direct comparison of two different things Not using like or as.
Metaphor
A phrase that means something other than the literal meaning of individual words.
Idiom
This gives animals or non-human object human-like characters.
Personification
Repetition of an initial consonant sound.
Alliteration
Words that sound like the objects they name or the sounds the objects make.
Onomatopoeia
He ran as fast as a cheetah. What type of figurative language is this?
Simile
What type of figurative language is this; The sun winked at me.
Personification
What type of figurative language is this? It was raining cats and dogs.
Idiom
Zip! Boom! Bang! Slurp! What type of figurative language is this?
Onomatopoeia
What type of figurative language is this? Life is a highway!
Metaphor
Betty's Room
There is no clutter cluttered up
more closely, I presume,
than the clutter clustered clingingly
in my friend, Betty's room.
What type of figurative language is this?
Alliteration
A division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains
Stanza
The message about life that the poem conveys
Theme
The attitude or mood the author creates
Tone
A deliberate exaggeration
Hyperbole
