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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE - Coggle Diagram
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
PERSONIFICATION
The attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, esp. as a rhetorical figure
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ONOMATOPOEIA
The formation of a word, as cuckoo or boom, by imitating the sound made by or associated with the thing the noun refers to:
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HYPERBOLE
Obvious and intentional exaggeration:
a campaign full of hyperbole; an example of hyperbole, such as "to wait an eternity.''
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An expression or phrase that does not follow regular rules of grammar, or one whose meaning cannot be predicted from the meaning of its individual parts
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METAPHOR
A way of describing another object or thing by suggesting a comparison of it to something else, but without using the word "like'' or "as'':
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SIMILE
A figure of speech in which two distinct things are compared by using "like'' or "as,'' such as in "She is like a rose.''
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ALLITERATION
Repetition of the same initial sound or sounds of two or more word groups, as in from stem to stern.
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