Term | Definition | Example |
Alliteration
(Aliteración) |
Repeating of consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables
|
My mommy makes money on Mondays mostly.
|
Assonance
(asonancia) |
Repeating the same vowel sound (but starting with different consonant sounds)
|
holy & stony
and
Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese
|
Cliche
(cliché) |
A word or phrase that has become over used.
|
No pain, no gain.
The truth hurts! Time is money. |
Hyperbole
(hipérbole) |
Big exaggeration, usually with humor
|
mile-high ice-cream cones
|
Idiom (Frases idiomáticas)
|
An expression that means something other than what the actual words say.
|
He was pulling my leg
|
Metaphor
(metáfora) |
a way of saying that two different things are alike in some way
|
Shaq is a monster on the court.
|
Onomatopoeia
(Onomatopeya) |
Naming a thing or an action by imitating the sound associated with it
|
buzz, hiss, roar, woof
|
Personification
(personificación) |
Giving something human qualities
|
The stars danced in the night sky.
|
Simile
(símil) |
A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as
|
as hungry as a bear
as sick as a dog eat like a pig like a crying baby |
Feb 18, 2015
Figurative Language (Lenguaje figurado)
Figurative Language
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