figurative language

simile

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What is a simile?

also compares two things. However, similes use the words “like” or “as.”

200

where is the simile in this phrase?

• Busy as a bee.

Saying they are busy like a bee.

300

What is the simile in this sentence?

• Clean as a whistle.

Saying something is clean like a whistle.

400

What is the simile in this sentence?

• Brave as a lion.

Saying someone is brave like a lion.

500

What is the simile in this sentence?

• The tall girl stood out like a sore thumb.

Saying someone stood out like a thumb meaning the looked different.

personification

100

What is personification?

gives human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or ideas.

200

What is the personification in this sentence?

• Opportunity knocked at his door.

Giving opportunity the ability to do human activities

300

What is the personification in this sentence?

• The sun greeted me this morning.

Saying the sun has a human ability.

400

What is the personification in this sentence?

• The sky was full of dancing stars.

Giving the stars a human ability.

500

What is the personification in this sentence?

• The vines wove their delicate fingers together.

giving the vines a human abiity.

onmatopoeia

100

What is onomatopoeia?

 is also a sound device where the words sound like their meaning, or mimic sounds. They add a level of fun and reality to writing.

200

Where is the onomatopoeia in this sentence?

• The burning wood hissed and crackled.

saying the wood hissed

300

Where is the onomatopoeia in this sentence?

• Sounds of nature are all around us. Listen for the croak, caw, buzz, whirs, swish, hum, quack, meow, oink, and tweet.

All the sounds of nature.

400

Where is the onomatopoeia in this sentence?

The best part about music class is that you can bang on the drum.

saying the drum bangs.

500

Where is the onomatopoeia in this sentence?

My brother can burp the alphabet.

The word burp is a use of onomatopoeia.

metaphor

100

What is a metaphor?

you make a statement that doesn’t literally make sense.

200

Where is the metaphor in this sentence?

• You're a couch potato.

Calling someone a couch potato.

300

Where is the metaphor in this sentence?

• Time is money.

Calling time money.

400

Where is the metaphor in this sentence?

• He has a heart of stone.

Saying he has a heart of stone.

500

Where is the metaphor in this sentence?

• America is a melting pot.

Saying america is a melting pot.

random

100

What kind of figurative language is this?

This coffee shop is an ice box! 

metaphor

200

What kind of figurative language is this?

She's happy as a clam. 

simile.

300

What kind of figurative language is this?

The sky misses the sun at night. 

personification

400

What kind of figurative language is this?

Both bees and buzzers buzz.

onomatopoeia.

500

What kind of figurative language is this?

I move fast like a cheetah on the Serengeti. 

simile