Figurative Language Devices

September-16-08
10:34 AM

1. Alliteration-
a. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
b. The snake slithered slowly.
c. Creates imagery
2. Allusion-
a. Passing reference or indirect mention
b. He's the Einstein of the class.
3. Assonance-
a. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
b. I felt depressed in my quest for incest and restless.
4. Diction-
a. The manner in which something is expressed in words
5. Hyperbole-
a. Exaggeration
b. I exploded Matt's skull.
6. Imagery-
a. A literary device to create a mental picture by using 5 senses.
7. Metaphor-
a. A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally
denote in order to suggest a similarity; comparing two unlike things without like or as.
8. Onomatopoeia-
a. A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally
denote in order to suggest a similarity; word that sounds like what it means.
b. BOOM headshot.
9. Paradox-
a. a statement that contradicts itself
b. I always lie.
10. Personification
a. Giving a inanimate object human traits
b. The ugly tree.
11. Pun
a. Play on words
b. Why the fly fly?
12. Rhetorical Question
a. A question which is not supposed to be answered.
b. What is the meaning of life?
13. Repetition
a. A repeated phrase or word for emphasis.
14. Simile
a. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed
with 'like' or 'as')
15. Symbol
a. Something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
16. Oxymoron
a. Two contradictory words that are side by side
b. JUMBO SHRIMP.

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