Definitions
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."
alliteration?
Early bird catches the _______.
worm
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
As cool as a ____________
cucumber
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?
Duc Anh didn't go on a date with that girl on Friday. He got cold _____
feet
This type of figurative language describes a person, object, or idea by saying it literally is something else .
What is a metaphor?
Name the figurative language: Bless your heart.
What is an idiom?
Identify the figurative language: The bee buzzed around my head.
What is onomatopoeia?
Johnny is feeling under the _______
weather.
What type of figurative language is this? "He is walking on thin ice."
Idiom
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the figurative language: Life is a box of chocolates.
Metaphor
The air was as cold as ____.
ice