Examples and Answers
Bang!
What is Onomatopoeia?
A comparison of two things not using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
How many different base types of figurative language are there?
What is 7 or 8?
The ball came at me very fast.
What is the ball came at me like a truck?
Fast as a cheetah.
What is a simile?
Two opposite things in one sentence.
What is an oxymoron?
What type of figurative language has the least letters in it?
What is a pun?
Why you are very intelligent.
What is you are a smart cookie?
My backpack weighs a ton!
What is hyperbole?
Giving human traits to non-human things.
What is a personification?
Which English playwright created over 20 different figurative language phrases?
Who is Shakespeare?
The sound of the door slamming.
What is bash, or crash, or bang, or slam?
Silly Sally sang songs sadly.
What is alliteration?
A non-literal phrase meant to convey meaning of a phrase.
What is an idiom?
Name an example of a mentonmy?
What is "the crown or the track or the arches?"
The wind made a high pitched noise.
What is the wind whistled?
You stupid genius!
What is a oxymoron?
The repetition of the sound of a vowel.
What is an assonance?
Name an example of a synecdoche.
What is "the team won by less than 4 minutes, hey you wanna grab a bite?"
You are very similar to a pile of rocks.
What is "you move like a pile of rocks?"