Definitions 1
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: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
Name the figurative language: The water was a glove that enveloped the swimmer’s body.
Metaphor.
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language:
I have told you a million times.
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
This type of figurative language compares two things by saying one thing is another.
What is a metaphor?
What type of figurative language is this?
We have been waiting in line for centuries.
Hyperbole
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
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).