Definitions 1
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?
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
The use of a word to describe or imitate a natural sound made by an object or action.
Onomatopoeia
What is your teachers name?
Mr. Miller
Identify the figurative language "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is alliteration?
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in the beginning.
Alliteration
Identify the example: The slithering snake stalked the small children.
Alliteration
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
A sound repeated at the start of a word. "She sold seashells at the seashore"
Alliteration
Name the figurative language: The water was a glove that enveloped the swimmer’s body.
Metaphor.
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
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
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
A phrase that shows exaggeration that cannot possibly be true.
Hyperbole
Name the figurative language: "The boy was a sky scraper, towering over all the other students".
Metaphor
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
What is a simile?
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Name the figurative language: I couldn't finish that in a million years.
What is a hyperbole?
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
This type of figurative language can often be seen in comic books.
Onomatopoeia
Name the figurative language: My backpack weighs a million pounds
Hyperbole.
Identify the figurative language: The bee buzzed around my head.
What is onomatopoeia?
What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
Hyperbole
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
How does figurative language make writing better for the reader?
Figurative language can appeal to the senses, makes writing more entertaining (funnier).
Name the figurative language: The air was as cold as ice.
Simile
Identify the figurative language: "Costs an arm and a leg."
What an hyperbole?