Similie
What two words are usually found in a simile?
What are "like" or "as"?
A metaphor is a ________ comparison.
What is direct?
What does personification give to non-human things?
What is Human traits
Define hyperbole.
What is An extreme exaggeration.
What is an idiom?
What is A common phrase with a meaning different from its words.
"She was as fast as a cheetah." What’s being compared?
What is The girl and a cheetah.
“The classroom was a zoo.” What does this mean?
What is noisy or chaotic.
“The wind whispered through the trees.” What’s personified?
What is The wind.
“I’ve told you a million times!” What’s exaggerated?
What is The number of times something was said.
What does “break the ice” mean?
What is To start a conversation.
True or False: A simile always exaggerates.
False
Create a metaphor about school.
Answers will vary (e.g., "School is a marathon.")
True or False: “The car roared down the street” is personification.
True.
True or False: Hyperbole should always be taken literally.
False.
Is “It’s raining cats and dogs” literal or figurative?
What is Figurative.
Make a simile about doing homework.
Answers will vary.
Change this simile into a metaphor: “She’s as bright as the sun.”
What is She is the sun.
Write your own personification sentence about an object in your room.
Answers will vary.
Create a hyperbole about eating lunch.
Answers will vary (e.g., "I could eat a mountain of fries.")
Explain the meaning of “hit the books.”
What is To start studying.
Identify the simile: “His voice was like thunder.”
What is “His voice was like thunder.”
What is the metaphor in this sentence: “My brother is a rock.”
“My brother is a rock.”
Explain the personification in “The stars danced in the night sky.”
Stars are given the human action of dancing.
What is the hyperbole in this sentence: “My backpack weighs a ton.”
What is “My backpack weighs a ton.”
Name and explain one idiom about emotions.
Answers will vary (e.g., “On cloud nine” = very happy).