Figurative Language 1
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
This type of figurative language is when words mimic sounds!
What is Onomatopoeia
This type of figurative language is a kind of figurative speech that pairs two opposing words together. Combining these opposite words is also known as contradicting terms
What is oxymoron
the type of language that uses non-literal words or phrases to convey a meaning beyond their literal definition, creating more vivid imagery and emotional impact
Figurative language
This type of figurative language compares two things by saying one thing IS another thing.
What is a metaphor?
This type of figurative language makes an extremely exaggerated statement.
What is Hyperbole
Name the figurative language: "I'm so tired I could sleep 100 hours".
Hyperbole
What type of figurative language is "I love eating jumbo shrimp.:
What is an oxymoron?
Name the figurative language: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Alliteration
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
Name that figurative language that can be words or phrases that aren't literal.
Idioms
Name the figurative language: "The deafening silence came as a surprise."
Oxymoron
Which figurative language is used as a form of wordplay, typically to add humor?
AKA "Dad" jokes
puns
The type of figurative language when something is opposite of the expected or what is said
irony
Name the figurative language: "The car's engine groaned when I turned the key!"
Personification
Name the type of figurative language used?
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!!
Hyperbole
Name the figurative language: Sunny skies and soft sand made the perfect summer day.
What is ALLITERATION?
Name the figurative language: "He had the strength of Hercules!"
Allusion
What figurative language is in this sentence, "If you throw in the towel before you should, you'll never learn the value of hard work."
Idiom
Name the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
Name the figurative language:
The bacon was sizzling in the pan as it cooked
Onomatopoeia
Name the figurative language:
The soft breeze blew my hair as the warm sun touched my skin, and I could smell my mother's sweet cinnamon apple pie through the window.
Imagery
Name the figurative language:
You don’t have to be Albert Einstein to understand poetry.
Allusion
Name the figurative language: "My grandmother's green thumb made her garden flourish."
2 possible
Alliteration and/or idiom