FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE ALLITERATION Repetition of sounds at the

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

ALLITERATION • Repetition of sounds at the beginning of words • Tongue twisters

ALLUSION • Reference to another work (song, poem, novel, character, art, etc. ) inside of a work • This place is like a Garden of Eden.

• Repetition of vowel sounds in non-rhyming words • Twice in the high night an owl cried. ASSONANCE

CONSONANCE • Repetition of final consonant sounds in words • Some mammals are clammy.

FLASHBACK • A scene in a novel, poem, short story, or play that interrupts the action to show an even that happened earlier • Sitting in the ambulance, John remembered the time he fell off his bike in 3 rd grade.

FORESHADOWING • Use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest action that is to come • A weapon found in a drawer in paragraph 1 of a story signals a murder that is to happen in paragraph 34

• Exaggeration of facts for a comic effect HYPERBOLE

IMAGERY • Details that creature a picture in the reader’s mind • Appeal to 5 senses • The sunset was the most gorgeous they'd ever seen; the clouds were edged with pink and gold.

IRONY A contrast between what happens and what is expected, what is stated and what is meant

METAPHOR • Comparison between 2 things, does not use like or as

ONOMATOPOEIA Words that suggest sounds

OXYMORON Phrase where 2 words are diametrically opposed

• A statement that reveals a truth, although at first it seems to be untrue PARADOX

• Something non-human is given human qualities PERSONIFICATION

SIMILE A comparison between 2 unlike things using the words like or as

SYMBOL Something that stands for something larger than itself