click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Figurative Language
Figurative Language & Poetic Devices
Term | Definition | Example |
---|---|---|
Literal Language | It is meant to be taken literally | |
Hyperbole | Extreme exaggeration for the sake of the emphasis | |
Simile | Using like and as to compare dissimilar things | |
Metaphor | A comparison of 2 dissimilar things that is stated like a fact | |
Personification | When non-human things are given human characteristics | |
Idiom | An expression the means something more than the literal meanings of its individual words | |
Imagry | When the writer uses words to activate the 5 senses | |
Allusion | A brief indirect reference. | |
Figurative Language | Vivid |