Definitions
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: The stars danced in the night.
What is personification?
The suitcase weighed a ton!
what is Hyperbole
Bear and Bare
what is Homophones
How do you make a tisse dance, you put a little boogie in it
what is a pun
The door groans when we open it.
what is Personification
A writer presents a situation or thing as if it is less important or serious than it is in reality.
what is understatment
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
what is Personification
Name the figurative language: The water was a glove that enveloped the swimmer’s body.
what is Metaphor.
The author uses an understatement to make a serious situation funny.
what is comitic irony
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah.
what is Simile
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language:
If I can’t buy that perfect prom dress, I’ll die!
what is Hyperbole
I just got in to a car crash lucky me.
what is Verbal Irony
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Name the figurative language: Bless your heart.
What is an idiom?
“This math formula is my Donkey.”
what is Allusion
Name the figurative language: It is a million degrees outside!
what is Hyperbole.
a police station being robbed
what is Situational Irony
When a writer uses a softer/nicer word/phrase in the place of something that could be considered offensive or unpleasant.
what is Euphemism
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the figurative language: "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse."
What hyperbole?
Contradictory or unexpected statements or situations reveal a reality that is different from what appears to be true
what is an idom
when shrech is taking to phiona and doesn't know shes an oger
what is Dramatic Irony