Types
Examples of Figurative Language
Sound Devices
Examples of Sound Devices
Writing
100

What type of figurative language uses "like" or "as"?

Simile

100

What type of figurative language is this?

The fuzzy blanket is a soft snow.

Metaphor

100

What sound device includes the same consonant sound at the beginning of multiple words?

Alliteration

100

What type of sound device is this?

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Alliteration

100

What do you call an eye-catching first sentence to your story?

Hook

200

What type of figurative language compares two things without using "like" or "as"?

Metaphor

200

What type of figurative language is this?

The bee buzzed all day.

Onomatopoeia

200

What sound device includes saying the same words, phrases, or sentences over and over again in a single piece of text?

Repetition

200

What type of sound device is this?

But he grew old
This knight so bold

End Rhyme

200

What are words or phrases that are used to move your story from part to part?

Transitional Phrases

300

What type of figurative language suggests the sound that it describes in the word?

Onomatopoeia

300

What type of figurative language is this?

It was clear as crystal.

Simile

300

What sound device includes words having the same consonant sounds at the ends of multiple words?

Consonance

300

What type of sound device is this?

Though I am old with wandering

Assonance

300

What is the definition of words or phrases that are used in a non-literal way for particular effect?

Figurative Language

400

What type of figurative language has an exaggerated statement or claim?

Hyperbole

400

What type of figurative language is this?

When she saw the dove fly overhead, she knew the worst was over.

Symbolism

400

What sound device includes the use of pleasant and melodious words?

Euphony

400

What type of sound device is this?

Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

Cacophony 

400

What type of transitional phrase is most important in a realistic fiction story?

Cause and Effect Transitional Phrase

500

What type of figurative language uses human qualities for non-human items.

Personification

500

What type of figurative language is this?

I heard the last piece of pie calling my name.

Personification

500

What is the analysis of a poem?

Scansion

500

What type of sound device is this?

I drove myself to the lake
and dove into the water.

Internal Rhyme

500

Correctly name the structure of a story in ORDER.

Exposition/Introduction, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution/Conclusion

M
e
n
u