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Round 5
100
The type of figurative language that compares two things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
100
Define personification.
What is giving human-like characteristics to non-human things.
100
Define idiom.
What is a phrase or statement in which the figurative meaning is different from the literal meaning?
100
The type of figurative language defined as an exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
100
Define alliteration.
What is the repetition of the beginning consonant sound?
200
Define metaphor.
What is compares two things by saying that one is the other?
200
The type of figurative language that, when spoken, makes the sound associated with that word.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
Identify the type of figurative langue used in the text below.
"...he heard the clack on stone and the leaping, dropping clicks of a small rock falling.”
(For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway)
What is onomatopoeia?
200
Identify the type of figurative language used in the text below.
"Harry had never in all his life had such a Christmas dinner. A hundred fat, roast turkeys; mountains of roast and boiled potatoes..."
(Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J. K. Rowling)
What is hyperbole?
200
Identify the type of figurative language used in the text below.
"The moonbeam was like a silver blade slicing through the room on to her face,"
(The BFG - Roald Dahl)
What is a simile?
300
Identify the type of figurative language used in the text below.
"The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on."
(Fog - Carl Sandburg)
What is personification?
300
Double Jeopardy!
What example(s) of figurative language are included in the example below?
"He had been handled by the maid as cavalierly as an inanimate object - a serving bowl, say, or a teapot."
(The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - Kate DiCamillo)
What are alliteration and simile?
300
Identify the type of figurative language used in the text below.
"Love is an open door."
(-Frozen)
What is a metaphor?
300
Identify the type of figurative language used in the text below.
"But then Mrs. Jefferson said something that really threw me for a loop."
(Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days - Jeff Kinney)
What is an idiom?
300
Identify the type of figurative language used in the text below.
"Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary..."
(The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe)
What is alliteration?
400
Name the type and example of figurative language represented by the image below.
What is a simile (The Giraffe is as tall as a tree.)
400
Create your own example of a metaphor.
400
Create your own example of hyperbole.
400
Double Jeopardy!
"He wears his heart on his sleeve."
1. Create an illustration to represent the literal meaning of the example above.
2. Write an explanation to explain the figurative meaning of the example above.
2. (It's easy to see his feelings.)
400
Create your own example of alliteration.
500
Create your own example of an idiom.
500
Name a common idiom that people might say when asking for help.
What is "Can you give me a hand"?
500
Name a common metaphor used to describe someone who stays up really late.
What is "You are a night owl."
500
Create your own example of personification.
500
Name the type and example of figurative language represented by the image below.
What is personification (The trees were dancing in the wind)?