Define it
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?
I'm sad because my pet canary PASSED AWAY.
Euphemism - a gentler way to say "DIED"
"He gets mad easily and flies off the handle" is an example of what literary device?
Idiom
Repeated reference to the color GOLD in The Outsiders.
Symbol
Extreme exaggeration that cannot possibly be true; It is used to make a point obvious.
Hyperbole
Identify the example: He wore a jacket that was sixty million sizes too big.
Hyperbole
Literary Device: when a character who changes and experiences personal growth throughout a story.
DYNAMIC CHARACTER
Name the figurative language: "From my window, I saw a cloak of mist on the water."
Metaphor
I nearly died of embarrassment when I tripped up the steps during class change.
Hyperbole
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Before someone acts in a play, people say BREAK A LEG
Idiom
Identify the figurative language: "I used to eat LIKE a horse during track season."
Simile
You made it to class just BY THE SKIN OF YOUR TEETH
idiom
Dally carried a HEATER. A HEATER is an example of what literary device?
Euphemism
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Mentioning that something is a "Herculean task" refers to a person or character in history. What figurative language is this?
ALLUSION
Identify the figurative language: The fly buzzed around my head.
What is onomatopoeia?
Johnny and Ponyboy reading Gone With the Wind is an example of what literary device?
Allusion
This type of figurative language can often be seen in comic books.
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
Name the figurative language: He was a beast on the court.
What is a metaphor?
What allusion is used in "Nothing Gold Can Stay"?
reference to the Garden of Eden
Name the figurative language: The air was as cold as ice.
Simile
If we break the law, the FUZZ will arrest us.
Euphemism