Define Me!
Isn't It Ironic?
Literal or Figurative?
What Am I?
What Am I? Part 2
100
extreme exaggeration
hyperbole
100
A type of irony where what a character says is the opposite of what he or she really means
Verbal Irony
100
I was so mad I stomped out of the room.
Literal
100
Best Buy, Coca-Cola, and Bed, Bath, and Beyond are examples of what?
Alliteration
100
I am dying of embarrassment.
hyperbole
200
giving human qualities to non-living thing
personification
200
A type of irony where the readers or audience know what's going to happen, but the characters in the story do not
Dramatic Irony
200
I was so happy, I was on Cloud 9.
Figurative
200
This place is like a Garden of Eden. What type of figurative language is used, and what does it mean?
Allusion- Garden of Eden The place is very beautiful.
200
The lion spit out the clown because he tasted funny.
pun
300
Repeating a consonant sound over and over again
alliteration
300
A type of irony in which an event turns out to be very different from what you would expect.
Situational Irony
300
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Figurative
300
Meow, moo, tweet
Onomatopoeia
300
Her cheeks are red like a rose.
Simile
400
Making a situation seem less important than it really is
Understatement
400
What would be an ironical name for a huge dog?
Tiny, Shrimp, etc.
400
It was raining so hard the ditches were overflowing.
Literal.
400
The assignment was a breeze.
Metaphor Assignment and breeze are being compared.
400
She is awfully pretty.
oxymoron
500
two opposite words are used together, such as "freezer burn"
oxymoron
500
You laugh at a person who slipped stepping on a banana peel and the next thing you know, you slipped too. What type of irony is this?
Situational
500
It was raining cats and dogs.
Figurative
500
The fire swallowed the entire forest.
personification
500
“Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.” What type of _____________ is this?
Situational irony
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