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Giving human qualities to non-human objects.
What is personification
What figurative language is this:
Ms. Pare passes around pans of pansies.
What is alliteration
What figurative language is this:
The class was clearly confused.
What is an oxymoron.
What figurative language is this:
The car went blame as it took off down the street
What is onomatopoeia.
When the same letter or sound is repeated at the beginning of closely connected words.
What is alliteration
An indirect comparison between two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile
What figurative language is this:
Snoopy barks loud like a lion.
What is a simile
What figurative language is this:
The moon will soon bloom.
What is assonance.
What figurative language is this:
Jason loved spending time playing on his virtual reality set.
What is an oxymoron.
The repetition of consonant sounds in multiple words; occurs within or at the end of words.
What is hyperbole.
What figurative language is this:
Ringo bangs on the drums with the power of 10,000 men.
What is hyperbole.
What figurative language is this:
He struck some hard luck.
What is consonance.
What figurative language is this:
It took Ms. Pare 50 million year to make this game.
What is hyperbole.
A figure of speech that uses contradicting terms together. The words do not appear to go together.
What is an oxymoron
A play on words; a funny way of using a word or phrase.
What is a pun.
What figurative language is this:
Break a leg
What is an Idiom.
What figurative language is this:
The boots marched forward.
What is synecdoche.
What figurative language is this:
The snow was a carpet over the ground last week.
What is metaphor.
The repetition of vowel sounds within non-rhyming words.
What is assonance.
A word or phrase that is not taken literally
What is an Idiom
What figurative language is this:
The walkie-talkie screeched with it's response.
What is personification.
What figurative language is this:
Give us this day, our daily bread.
What is synecdoche.
What figurative language is this:
The angry storm screamed through the night, slicing through the trees like a sharp blade.
(Hint: 2 types)
What is personification and simile.
Words for individual parts that refer to the whole.
What is synecdoche.