Simile or Metaphor?
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
Simile
Name the figurative language: "The car's engine groaned when I turned the key!"
What is personification?
Give an example of an alliteration in a sentence about 'pizza'!
What could be Pepperoni pizza is perfect at parties.
Identify the figurative language:
“The dawn came quickly now, a cold gray light that crept across the land like a liquid.”
What is simile
True or false: We can enhance our writing by adding figurative language.
True
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
Metaphor
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
This type of figurative language is when words mimic sounds!
Onomatopoeia
What type of figurative language is used in the following quote:
“If you were to swallow a single drop of it, your throat would burn for a thousand years.”
What is hyperbole
He is as cool as a cucumber.
What is a simile saying he is relaxed or not stressed.
Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah.
Simile
What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
Hyperbole
BOOM! CUCKOO! DING! & BANG! What is the use of these words called in figurative language?
ONOMATOPOEIA
The type and meaning of this figurative language.
"Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.”
Metaphor meaning that you start to forget things over time.
List 5 types of figurative language
simile, metaphor, idiom, hyperbole, personification, repetition, alliteration, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, pun, irony, paradox, imagery
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
Simile?
Name the figurative language: She was dying of laughter.
Hyperbole.
Identify the figurative language that repeats the same beginning sound in nearby words.
What is alliteration
Name the figurative language and what does it mean for the following:
“The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed.”
Source: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
What is personification.
It describes a long sunset.
Why do we use figurative language in our writing?
to help the reader better understand what we are trying to describe and make it more entertaining
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
Metaphor
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
A sentence of onomatopoeia about nature that is also alliteration.
What is the bee buzzed?
Name the figurative language and explain:
“All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances.”
What is the difference between LITERAL language and FIGURATIVE language.
Literal language means exactly what is said while figurative language has different meanings than the words that are used.