Definitions
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: The stars danced in the night.
What is personification?
Identify the figurative language "Prior planning prevents poor performance."
What is alliteration?
Name the figurative language: Sally sells seashells by the sea shore.
Alliteration
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in the beginning.
Alliteration
Identify the example: The slithering snake stalked the small children.
Alliteration
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
Name the figurative language: The water was a glove that enveloped the swimmer’s body.
Metaphor.
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah.
Simile
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: "The soft wind blew through the trees with the sweet smell of spring flowers."
Imagery
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Name the figurative language: "I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight."
What is repetition?
Identify the figurative language: The bee buzzed around my head. BZZZ!
What is onomatopoeia?
Name the figurative language: The light danced on the surface of the water.
Personification
the naming of a thing or action by imitation of natural sounds
onomatopoeia
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the figurative language: "I would not like them in a bus. I would not like them in a train. I would not like them here or there."
What is repetition?
Name the figurative language: The air was as cold as ice.
Simile