FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE FLOW CHART
Is it a comparison between two things?
Yes
Does it use like or as?
No
Are they exaggerating
too much or too little?
No
Yes
No
Yes
Simile
Metaphor
Is there an object or
idea doing human things?
Is it Alliteration?
Onomatopoeia? Idiom?
If not…
Hyperbole
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No
Yes
Personification