Definitions
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words.
What is alliteration?
Name the figurative language: The stars danced in the night.
What is personification?
Identify the figurative language "Friendship is a roller coaster with a lot of ups and downs."
What is metaphor?
Name the figurative language: "The lovely lilies smiled at me as I passed by."
personification
figurative language with sound words
What is onomatopoeia?
A reference to a person, place, or event from literature, history, sports, or movies or the arts.
What is an allusion?
Identify the example: The slithering snake hissed at the small children.
onomatopoeia
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
Name the figurative language: This assignment is a piece of cake.
Idiom
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
A group of words whose collective meaning is quite different from their individual, literal meaning.
What is idiom?
Name the figurative language: I'll turn into a pumpkin if I am not home on time.
Allusion
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: "The wind whispered softly to the trees that change was coming."
onomatopoeia
double points
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
double points
something that stands for something else
What is a symbol?
Name the figurative language: I just climbed a million stairs.
What is an hyperbole?
Identify the figurative language: The boy flushed the toilet. Whoosh!!
What is onomatopoeia?
Hal hit the house hard with a hammer.
alliteration
Figurative language that is an exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect.
oxymoron
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?
Double points
Name the figurative language: The air was as cold as ice.
Simile