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Identify the figurative language:
It was the first day of the school year during lunch where we all ate like pigs.
Similie
Identify the figurative language:
My best friend Sarah is a lion because of how brave she is.
Metaphor
Identify the figurative language:
The tree in my back yard is tall, towering, and thin.
Alliteration
Identify the figurative language:
The trees started dancing to the cool breeze.
Personification
Identify the figurative language:
The friend says she has the biggest house in the entire world.
Hyperbole
Identify the figurative language:
During the car race I could hear the car’s whoosh being the loudest of all.
Onomatopoeia
The first one to come up with an example of alliteration wins 200 points!
Identify the figurative language:
He passed his test by the skin of his nails.
Idiom
First one to say an example of a hyperbole wins 200 points!
When a series of word start with the same letter, you are using...
Alliteration
First one to say an example of a onomatopoeia wins 300 points!
What is a cliche?
A phrase that is overused
First one to say an example of a idiom wins 300 points!
When you state the sound of an action of an other thing, you are using..
Onomatopoeia
Which of the following is the best example of a hyperbole?
A.) It was cold that the penguins started wearing jackets.
B.) It was cold the penguins started wearing hats.
C.) It was so cold the penguins started wearing scarves.
D.) It was so cold that the penguins started wearing hats, jackets, and scarves.
D
Definition of figurative language:
Figurative language is language that does not take it’s literal meaning.
Define assonance
It occurs when you repeat a vowel sound in a phrase.
Identify the figurative language:
Once winter rolled in, only time would fell is grandma’s garden would survive.
Cliche
In which kind of writings is figurative language used?
Biography, auto biography, science fiction, or nonfiction ?
All of them
Define synecdoche
A word that represents a whole
Identify the figurative language:
I will pay with my plastic.
It is a Synecdoche because it refers a credit card as plastic.
Which figurative language can you use while describing things in detail using your 5 senses?
All of them
Identify each type of figurative language in this poem(not all figurative language is used)
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Metaphor-Her early leaf’s a flower;
Alliteration-Her hardest hue to hold
Allusion-So Eden sank to grief
Personification- Then less subsides to leaf
Hyperbole-but only so an hour
First one to say an example of a cliche, assonance, or synecdoche wins 500 points!
Identify the figurative language:
True, I do hate the flu
Assonance