Figurative Language
Identify the Figurative Language:
'She was as busy as a bee.'
What is a simile
The following describes what:
A person, place, or thing
What is a noun?
“I’ve told you a million times to clean your room!”
What type of figurative language is used?
What is Hyperbole?
In “She quickly ran home,” what part of speech is quickly?
What is a adverb?
“The moon was a glowing basketball in the night sky.”
Identify the figurative language and the part of speech of glowing.
What is Metaphor and Adjective?
What is Personification?
What is it called when you give human qualities to non-human things?
The following examples are examples of what ?
Sleeping, jogging, eating, and skiing.
What is a verb?
"Ouch! She yelled as the desk fell onto her foot. I'm going to be hopping like a kangaroo"
What TWO Figurative Language types or in the sentence?
What is Onomatopoeia and Simile?
Define the acronym FANBOYS
What is For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, and So?
Choose the sentence with correct capitalization:
A. we studied figurative language in english class.
B. We studied figurative language in English class.
What is B?
List all 10 Figurative Languages types we have studied
What is, Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Allusion, Alliteration, Hyperbole, Idiom, Irony, Onomatopoeia, and Oxymoron
What are Adjectives?
What are words that describe Nouns and Pronouns?
“The classroom was a zoo after the teacher left.”
What type of figurative language is used?
What is Metaphor?
Define Interjection
What is words that convey strong meaning or emotions?
“The moon was a glowing basketball in the night sky.”
Identify the figurative language and the part of speech of glowing.
What is Metaphor and Adjective?
Identify the two types of Figurative Language in this sentence:
"The stars danced like diamonds across the velvet sky."
What is Personification (stars danced) and Simile (like diamonds)
Identify the part of speech of the underlined word:
The students worked quietly.
What is an adverb?
“The fire station burned down—what an ironic situation!”
Identify the figurative language and explain why it fits.
Irony — the place designed to respond to fires was itself destroyed by one.
The following words are examples of Prepositions EXCEPT?
Under, With, Between, On, and Hope
What is Hope?
“My backpack weighs a ton!”
Identify the figurative language. Then identify the part of speech of backpack.
What is Hyperbole and Noun?
What type of Figurative Language is used in the following sentence?
"The students were clearly confused on the given directions for the project."
What is Oxymoron?
Identify the part of speech of the underlined word:
It was raining, but we still managed to move into our new house
What is a Co-ordinating conjunction?
Identify the figurative language AND explain its meaning:
“Opportunity knocked, but he pretended not to hear.”
What is personification?
Meaning: Opportunity is described as acting like a person to show a missed chance.
Identify all 8 parts of speech represented in this sentence: “Wow! She quickly threw the small ball toward him, and he caught it.”
Wow = interjection; She/he/it = pronoun; quickly = adverb; threw/caught = verb; the/small = adjective; ball = noun; toward = preposition; and = conjunction
“Although Marcus was exhausted, he continued running because he wanted to finish the race.”
Identify one conjunction, one pronoun, one adjective, one verb, and one adverb.
Although/because = conjunction; he = pronoun; exhausted = adjective; continued/running/wanted/finish = verbs; one = adjective;