Christmas Songs
This song, referenced in the movie Hot Rod, recounts the tale of a cherished family member's encounter with a four legged Christmas hero.
What is Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
In a Christmas Carol, Scrooge's cold character is described using figurative language. " He iced his office in the dog-days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is hyperbole?
This famous character is compared to a peddler just opening his pack in Clement Moore's Twas the Night Before Christmas.
Who is Santa Claus?
These large socks are often hung over a fireplace
What are stockings?
The poem "The Night Before Christmas" is credited with creating the modern view of what Christmas figure?
What is Santa Claus?
This famous Christmas song contains these auditory expressions of language?
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What is onomatopoeia?
The movie, Jack Frost demonstrates this type of figurative language when an unlikely friend provides a link to the boy's father who died in a car accident.
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What is a personification?
This famous reindeer is metaphorically compared to the headlights on a vehicle.
Who is Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer?
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year refers to this melodic Christmas Tradition.
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What is caroling?
This famous clip from Elf demonstrates this type of figurative language.
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What is hyperbole?
These two types of figurative language can be readily heard in this Christmas song.
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What is Simile and Metaphor?
Believe as performed in the movie "Polar Express" contains these examples both personification and simile in the first stanza.
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What is "dreams are calling like bells in the distance"?
A Clause is compared to Claus by this particular mythical toymaker.
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Who is Bernard the Elf?
White Christmas refers to this Christmas tradition that keeps the U.S. Postal service busy every year.
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What are Christmas cards?
We Need a Little Christmas refers to slicing one of these.
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What is Fruitcake?
Pentatonix performs the winter hymnal. This line in the song is a simile.
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What is turn the white snow as red as strawberries in summertime?
This famous story by O'Henry contains a central metaphor comparing the way Della and Jim gave gifts to the gifts given by the wisemen.
What is The Gift of the Magi?
This famous character is metaphorically compared as followed, "You're a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce!."
Who is the Grinch?
When Charlie Brown chooses a simple rather than modernized version of this Christmas Tradition, he is also metaphorically fighting society's commercialization of Christmas?
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What is a Christmas tree?
The kissing plant of Christmas.
What is Mistletoe?
Composed in 1818, this carol was sung by French, English, and German troops during the The Christmas Truce of 1914
What is "Silent Night"?
In The Christmas Story, Ralph receives pink bunny pajamas from his aunt. His father describes these using this type of figurative language.
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What is simile?
The Christmas Song personifies this character as "nipping at your nose".
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Who is Jack Frost?
The Christmas song that refers to a naughty child sneaking down the stairs to find his mom and Santa Claus refers to this Christmas tradition.
What is kissing under the mistletoe?
The commercials used by this company in the 1930's gave birth to Santa's red and white coat.
What is the Coca-Cola Company?