Identify the Figurative Language
She told her classmate, after the test, "This quiz was a piece of cake.
Which figurative language is used in this sentence?
What is an Idiom?
Simile
What is a type of figurative language that compares two different things using like or as?
She had brown hair that was as dark as chocolate.
What are the two things being compared is hair and chocolate
She checked her watch to see if it was time to leave the building.
What is a literal sentence?
The trees danced side to side in the storm.
Which figurative language is used in this sentence?
What is a personification?
Hyperbole
What is a figurative language that uses an exaggeration to make the topic more intriguing.
They fought like cats and dogs.
What are the cats and dogs?
She was running like her life depended on it!
What is a figurative sentence?
When she looked at the food she saw four small muffins on a black tray, carried by a tall girl with brown hair.
What is imagery?
Allusion
What is a type of figurative language that is designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly?
Your explanation is as clear as mud.
What is an explanation and mud
She was throwing paper at me for an hour before I told the teacher what she had been doing. I'm very happy she got a detention.
What is a literal sentence?
She was holding on to her phone with such a sturdy grip that is she pulled any harder on the phone it would break in half.
What is a hyperbole?
Metaphor
What is a type of figurative language that compares two different things without using like or as?
Watching the show was like watching grass grow.
What is watching the show and watching the grass grow?
Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better.
What is figurative language?
Her cat is near the computer to keep an eye on the mouse.
What is a pun?
Alliteration
What is a type of figurative language that the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words?
My friends say I'm as pale as a ghost
What is I'm (the person narrating) and a ghost?
We were at the farm all day. The pigs kept making noise when I was trying to do my homework. All I heard was, "Oink!" for twenty-three minutes exactly.
What is figurative language?