Figurative Language Definitions
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Identify the figurative language: The rabbit was as slow as a sloth.
What is a simile?
The definition of visual imagery.
What is imagery that describes colors, lights, shapes, or patterns?
Identify the figurative language: I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
What is a hyperbole?
The figurative language that uses words to evoke the sound of the object they refer to or describe.
What is onomatopoeia?
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in the beginning.
What is alliteration?
Identify the example: The slithering snake stalked the small children.
What is alliteration?
The definition of auditory imagery.
What is imagery that describes noises, music, or silence?
Identify the figurative language: The bee buzzed around my head.
What is onomatopoeia?
The type of figurative language that makes an intentional exaggeration of the truth to emphasize importance or create comic effect.
What is hyperbole?
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language: The stars danced in the night.
What is personification?
The definition of tactile imagery.
What is imagery that describes temperature, texture, or physical contact?
Identify the figurative language: The criminal swore loyalty to the Crown.
What is metonymy?
The figurative language that is a phrase or expression, used with a particular group or in society, that has gained meaning which is different from the literal meaning of the words.
What is idiom?
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the figurative language: "The boy was a sky scraper, towering over all the other students".
What is a metaphor?
The definition of olfactory imagery.
What is imagery that describes scents, fragrances, or odors?
Name the figurative language: Johnny is feeling under the weather?
Idiom.
The type of figurative language that has the repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words.
What is assonance?
This type of figurative language is a part of something used to refer to its whole.
What is synecdoche?
Identify the figurative language: "Costs an arm and a leg."
What is an idiom?
The definition of gustatory imagery.
What is imagery that describes sweet, sour, savory, bitter, salty, or umami flavors?
Name the figurative language: The woman felt sweet sorrow.
What is oxymoron?
The figurative language when an object or concept is referred to, but not directly named.
What is metonymy?