Figurative language
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: The stars danced in the night.
What is personification?
Identify the figurative language "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is alliteration?
Name the figurative language: "He let the cat out of the bag."
Idiom
Name the figurative language: The smell of spring lingered in the still air.
Alliteration
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in the beginning.
Alliteration
Identify the example: The slithering snake stalked the small children.
Alliteration
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
Name the figurative language: The water was a glove that enveloped the swimmer’s body.
Metaphor.
Name the figurative language: The clouds danced across the sky as the wind blew.
Personification
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah.
Simile
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: "The soft sound of summer blew through the trees"
Alliteration
_______ is a common phrase that means something different from its literal meaning but can be understood because of its popular usage.
Idiom
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Name the figurative language: Be still, my heart.
What is an idiom?
Identify the figurative language: The bee buzzed around my head. BUZZZ!
What is onomatopoeia?
Name the figurative language: Johnny is feeling under the weather?
Idiom.
Hyperbole
What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
Hyperbole
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the figurative language: "Costs an arm and a leg."
What an idiom?
Name the two types of figurative language: The air was as cold as ice. Blowing its brisk breeze across the meadows.
Simile
Alliteration
Name the two types of figurative language: A spot for the splendid evergreens to grow. The trees were men all covered in snow.
Alliteration
Metaphor