Figurative Language
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Figurative Language
danger zone
Figurative Language
Hyperbole, Onomatopoeia or Idiom
Figurative Language
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100

This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."

What is a simile?

100

Name the figurative language: "The car's engine groaned when I turned the key!"

What is personification?

100

Give an example of an HYPERBOLE in a sentence about 'pizza'! 

Ms. Dybas makes the greatest pizza in all of Chicago! 

100

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100

True or false: We can enhance our writing by adding figurative language.

True

200

This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.

What is a metaphor?

200

Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us. 

Personification 

200

This type of figurative language is when words mimic sounds! 

What is Onomatopoeia

200

What type of figurative language would this be?

Gomez grabbed googles to google goats...

lol I tried

ALLITERATION 

200

This type of figurative language is a form of expression particular to a specific person or group of people, but it is NOT LITERAL.

What is an IDIOM
300

Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah. 

Simile

300

What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."

Hyperbole

300

BOOM! CUCKOO! DING! & BANG! What is the use of these words called in figurative language?

ONOMATOPOEIA

300

What is a comparison of two things using the words is and are? 

METAPHOR

300

List 5 types of figurative language 

ANY OF THESE....simile, metaphor, idiom, hyperbole, personification, repetition, alliteration, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, pun, irony, paradox, imagery

400

Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"

What is a simile?

400

Name the figurative language: She was dying of laughter.

Hyperbole.

400

Identify the figurative language: I could sleep forever!

Hyperbole

400

What type of figurative language is where the same first letter sound repeats itself? 

What is ALLITERATION?

400

Why do we use figurative language in our writing?

to help the reader better understand what we are trying to describe and make it more entertaining

500

Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.

What is a metaphor?

500

This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.

What is personification?

500

Identify the figurative language: out of the blue

What an idiom?

500

"Wonderous words wisp with the force of a whip, the worth of my life I say with the passion of many moons." This is an example of...?

What is an ALLITERATION?

500

What is the difference between LITERAL language and FIGURATIVE language. 


Literal language means exactly what is said while figurative language has different meanings than the words that are used. 

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