Figurative Language 1
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: The more I love, the more he hateth me,” Helena laments.
Paradox
What figurative language is this: "I know of a bank where the wild thyme blows, / Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows."
What is Imagery
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 tired I could sleep 100 hours".
Hyperbole
What type of figurative language is where the same first letter sound repeats itself?
What is ALLITERATION?
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
What is an Personification
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
Titania, the proud fairy queen, falls in love with Bottom, who has the head of a donkey.
Situational irony
List 5 types of figurative language
simile, metaphor, idiom, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia
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: The audience knows the love potion has been placed on the wrong Athenian’s eyes, but the characters do not.
The bacon was sizzling in the pan as it cooked
Name the figurative language used.
Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
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
Name the type of figurative language used?
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!!
Hyperbole
Sunny skies and soft sand made the perfect summer day.
What is ALLITERATION?
What is the type of figurative language that compares two things without using like or as?
Metaphor