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 "A struggling few got up to go in deep despair."
What is alliteration?
Confident, arrogant, pride.
What is the theme?
A way of expressing oneself that does not use realistic meaning.
What is figurative language?
This type of figurative language is a when the word imitates the sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
Name the figurative language: I have a million things to do.
What is hyperbole?
Identify the figurative language: "It rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell, it pounded on the mountains and recoiled upon the flat."
What is hyperbole?
There is no joy in Mudville-mighty Casey has struck out.
What is the last line of Casey At The Bat?
Tells the story of the final half-inning of a baseball game.
What is the plot?
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language: The hawk as it soars in daylight.
What is symbolism?
Identify the figurative language: "There went up a muffled roar, like the beating of the storm waves on a stern and distant shore"
What is a simile?
The Ballad written by Ernest Thayer.
What is Casey At The Bat?
A very attractive woman.
What is Lulu?
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Name the figurative language: Bat at eye.
What is an idiom?
Identify the figurative language: If only Casey could get a whack at that bat.
What is onomatopoeia?
Overconfident and prideful.
Who is Casey?
Jinx or bad luck.
What is hoodoo?
This type of figurative language uses two apparently contradictory terms together.
What is an oxymoron?
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the figurative language: "Tongues applaud as Casey steps into the batter's box and wipes his hands on his shirt"
What an personification?
Casey does not swing at the first two pitches.
What is a strike?"
A baseball park.
What is setting?