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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?
Identify the figurative language "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is alliteration?
Name the figurative language: "Birds of a feather flock together"
Idiom
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
The use of a word to describe or imitate a natural sound made by an object or action.
Onomatopoeia
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in the beginning.
Alliteration
Identify the example: The slithering snake stalked the small children.
Alliteration
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
Name the figurative language: His beating heart showed his true feelings for his talking stage.
Symbolism
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
A phrase or expression that has been used throughout time and has another meaning then what is being said.
Idiom
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
Hyperbole
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 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: She left her hometown like a bird flying south.
Simile
Identify the figurative language: The bee buzzed around my head.
What is onomatopoeia?
Name the figurative language: Johnny is feeling under the weather
Idiom.
Name the figurative language:
She walked into school and could smell the freshly cut grass. She could hear 6 or 7 other kids making jokes in the distance. She focused on the minty flavor of her gum as she walked to meet her friend.
Imagery
Using descriptive language that appeals to the 5 senses: sight, sound, taste, touch, smell
Imagery
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the figurative language: "The car costs an arm and a leg."
What an idiom?
Name the figurative language: The air was as cold as ice.
Simile
When a word or image is used to represent something else
symbolism