Figurative Language
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This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language: Don't steal my thunder!
Idiom
Words mean exactly what each one says.
Literal Language
This type of figurative language compares two things by saying one thing IS another thing.
What is a metaphor?
This type of figurative language makes an extremely exaggerated statement.
What is Hyperbole
Name the figurative language: "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
Hyperbole
This type of figurative language is a saying for a specific person or group of people, but it is NOT LITERAL.
What is an IDIOM
Name the figurative languuage: He was as fast as a cheetah.
Simile
Name the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
Name the figurative language: I've told you a million times to turn off the lights when you leave!
What is Hyperbole
List 5 types of figurative language
simile, metaphor, idiom, hyperbole, personification,
Name the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
Simile
Name the figurative language: She was dying of laughter.
Hyperbole.
Name the figurative language: Out of the blue
Idiom
Why do we use figurative language in our writing?
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
Name the figurative language: "The car's engine groaned when I turned the key!"
Personification
Give an example of an HYPERBOLE in a sentence about 'pizza'!
Example - Island Pub makes the greatest pizza in the world!
I ate cinnamon oatmeal for breakfast. Literal or Figurative?
Literal language