Definitions
This type of figurative language is when two words end with the same sound or letter.
What is a rhyme?
I've never seen a room so clean.
What is rhyme?
An onomatopoeia.
What is a (word that demonstrates a sound)?
"I wandered lonely as a cloud" (Wordsworth).
What is a simile?
This type of figurative language is when two words begin with the same sound or letter.
What is an alliteration?
Fifty fighting falcons flew fearlessly.
What is alliteration?
A rhyme.
What is a (pair of words that end on the same sound)?
"Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby" (Hughes).
What is personification?
This type of figurative language is when two objects are compared using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
You're face is like sunshine.
What is simile?
A hyperbole.
What is an (obvious exaggeration)?
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and/I took the one less traveled by/And that has made all the difference" (Frost).
What is hyperbole?
This type of figurative language is when a word demonstrates a sound?
What is an onomatopoeia?
The hungry waves grabbed at the sand castle until it was no more.
What is personification?
A personification.
What is a (non-living thing given human traits)?
"Everything I do with (your memory) is stitched with its color" (Merwin).
What is hyperbole?
This type of figurative language is when two things are compared without using "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
Her mind was a storm when she heard the news.
What is metaphor?
A metaphor.
What is a (pair of objects being compared without using "like" or "as")?
"Some days I am more wolf than woman" (Gill).
What is a metaphor?