Identifying Figurative Language
He is as busy as a bee.
What is a simile?
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
A person in a play, movie, or book.
What is a character?
A phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought.
What is a cliche?
Montclair State University
What is the university Ms. Rafferty graduated from?
These high heels are killing me.
What is hyperbole?
Descriptive language utilizing the five senses.
What is imagery?
The place in which a story takes place.
What is setting?
What is a hook?
The _____________ is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The test is used to measure a student's aerobic capacity as part of the ______ assessment. Students run back and forth as many times as they can, each lap signaled by a beep sound.
What is the fitness gram pacer test?
My flowers were begging for water.
What is personification?
An exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
The problem
What is conflict?
A prose narrative relating to personal experience usually told in the first person.
What is a personal narrative?
Apple, blue raspberry, cherry, watermelon and grape flavors.
What are the jolly rancher flavors?
It was a dark and stormy night.
What is imagery?
A reference to a play, movie, book, etc.
What is an allusion?
A glimmer of hope, looking for the good inside the bad
What is silver lining?
Figurative language: imagery, metaphor, simile, hyperbole, etc
What are sensory details?
"There is people that are dying, Kim!"
Who is Kourtney Kardashian?
I wish I could just click my heels and go home.
What is an allusion?
A series of words that start with the same letter sound.
What is alliteration?
Identify: "I feel very happy about how today's test went. I am nervous for how my math class is going to go today though because yesterday was draining."
What is point of view? (Extra 100 if you said What is first person point of view?)
In Shrek: learning to tolerate and accept others.
What is the lesson learned OR what is theme?
A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.
What is an pun?