What is Figurative Language?
The repeated consonant sound at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
Piece of cake!
What is easy and simple?
Apple of my eye.
What is an idiom?
A figure of speech stating two things are similar.
What is a metaphor?
When everyone is sleeping, the house is as quiet as a mouse. The comparison in the text is.
What is a house to a mouse?
The rain came down in full cold buckets.
What is a metaphor?
An extravagant exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
The boy's shirt yelled my name since it was so bright. The item given human traits.
What is a shirt?
I could eat every hamburger on this planet, I was so hungry.
What is a hyperbole?
Giving human qualities to things and ideas.
What is personification?
Their was a BOOM when the box fell off the desk onto the floor. Name the form of figurative language.
What is onomatopoeia?
The good news traveled fast through the town.
What is a personification?
A phrase that has a meaning different from the dictionary definition.
What is an idiom?
The ship was a tiger roaring through the water. Name the comparison in the statement.
What is a ship to a tiger roaring through the water?
The bugs went SPLAT on the windshield when we were driving to the campsite.
What is onomatopoeia?