Figurative Language: Practive

Practice flashcards to help students identify types of figurative language. (Florida BEST Standards p. 175)

“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”

Alliteration: the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words.

“I’m so tired I could sleep for 6 or 7 years!!”

Hyperbole: Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. 

“It’s raining cats and dogs!”

Idiom: An expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but must be learned as a whole.

“The cabin smelled of cinnamon and vanilla, as mom baked fresh snickerdoodles. The old floorboards creaked gently under my step.”

Imagery: Writing about objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our five physical senses.

“It was the bloodstained gate, the entrance into the hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass.” Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Metaphor: A word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to suggest that they are similar (does NOT use like or as).

Boom Bop BAM!

Onomatopoeia: The forming of a word in imitation of sound.

The ocean whispered to me: “six-seven.”

Personification: Representing a thing or idea as a person in art, literature. Giving it “human” traits when it wouldn’t normally have them.

“The class was as loud as a concert.”

Simile: A comparison of two unlike things, often introduced by like or as. 

The door went “creak, creeeeeeak, creak.”

Onomatopoeia: The forming of a word in imitation of sound.

Adam is as silly as a clown!

Simile: A comparison of two unlike things, often introduced by like or as. 

“CRAsH BANG!! The wind slammed the door.”

Onomatopoeia: The forming of a word in imitation of sound.

“[…] until the great object, which swallowed up every habit of my nature […]” Mary Shelly (Frankenstein)

Personification: Representing a thing or idea as a person in art, literature. Giving it “human” traits when it wouldn’t normally have them.

“Or I guess the grass itself is a child, the produced babe of vegetation.” Walt Whitman (Song of Myself)

Metaphor: A word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to suggest that they are similar (does NOT use like or as).

“The steam from my latte felt hot against my cheeks. It smelled of nutmeg and honey.”

Imagery: Writing about objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our five physical senses.

“I run faster than light!”

Hyperbole: Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. 

“Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” – Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven)

Alliteration: the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words.

“Those Takis are calling my name.”

Personification: Representing a thing or idea as a person in art, literature. Giving it “human” traits when it wouldn’t normally have them.