Definitions 1
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
The stars danced in the night.
personification
A play on words
Pun
Name the figurative language: "He let the cat out of the bag."
Idiom
A paradox created by two contradictory terms
Oxymoron
A statement or situation that at first appears to contradict itself, but makes sense
paradox
The lizard waved at us as it walked by
Personification
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
Name the figurative language: The water was a glove that surrounded the swimmer.
Metaphor.
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
A phrase or expression that has been used throughout time and has another meaning than what is being said.
Idiom
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language: Bobby was as fast as a cheetah.
Simile
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: "The boy was a sky scraper, towering over all the other students".
Metaphor
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
A phrase that shows EXTREME exaggeration that cannot possibly be true.
Hyperbole
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Name the figurative language: My friend was in the talent show so I told her to break a leg!
What is an idiom?
When the audience expects an event to occur, but something different/unexpected happens
Situational Irony:
Name the figurative language: Johnny is feeling under the weather.
Idiom.
When the audience expects an event to occur, but something different/unexpected happens
Situational Irony
What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
Hyperbole
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the figurative language: Mom said she had to go to the store to buy milk and it was going to cost an arm and a leg!
What an idiom?
Name the figurative language: The air was as cold as ice.
Simile
When a writer uses a better word in the place of something that could be considered offensive.
Euphimism