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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?
Your friend is going on stage and you say "Break a leg!" What do you mean?
Good luck!
Name the figurative language: "He let the cat out of the bag."
Idiom
What is hyperbole?
Name the figurative language: Oink!
What is an onomatopoeia?
Create your own simile.
Response must compare two unlike things using like or as.
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
Name the figurative language: The water was a glove that enveloped the swimmer’s body.
Metaphor.
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
A well known phrase or expression that has another meaning then what is literally being said.
Idiom
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.
Simile
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
Define hyperbole
What is an extreme exaggeration?
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Name the figurative language: Beat around the bush.
What is an idiom?
Create a sentence that personifies an alarm clock.
The alarm yelled at me to wake up.
Name the figurative language: Johnny is feeling under the weather?
Idiom.
Name that figurative language: Silly Sally sang songs so sweetly at the seashore.
What is alliteration?
Create your own personification
Any response using personification
Name the figurative language: Kate quickly captured the curious cat.
What is an alliteration?
Identify the figurative language: "Costs an arm and a leg."
What an idiom?
Name the figurative language: The air was as cold as ice.
Simile
How does figurative language make writing better for the reader?
Figurative language can appeal to the senses, makes writing more entertaining (funnier).