english

• Personification


  Giving humans traits to objects
• Personification


  • The sunlight danced
• Hyperbole


  Exaggerating to show strong feeling or effect (but not something that can actually happen)
• Hyperbole


  • She'll kill me
• Literal Language


  Ordinary/usual word
• Literal Language


  • She is a fast runner
• Figurative Language


  Makes the reader see the context (figure out what it means)
• Figurative Language


  • You look like an angel
• Onomatopoeia


  A word that makes a sound
• Onomatopoeia


  • aw aw, meow, beep beep
• Oxymoron


  Two words put together that contradict each other
• Oxymoron


  • Pretty Ugly
• Metaphor


  Comparing two unlike things without using 'like', 'as', 'than'
• Idiom


  A saying that is not meant to be taken literally
• Idiom


  • It's raining cats and dogs
• Understatement


  Expression with less strength than expected
• Understatement


  • I'll be there in one second
• Pun


  A form of wordplay where a word has a double meaning