danger zone
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: "The car's engine groaned when I turned the key!"
What is personification?
Give an example of an HYPERBOLE in a sentence about 'pizza'!
Ms. Dybas makes the greatest pizza in all of Chicago!
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True or false: We can enhance our writing by adding figurative language.
True
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
This type of figurative language is when words mimic sounds!
What is Onomatopoeia
What type of figurative language would this be?
Gomez grabbed googles to google goats...
lol I tried
ALLITERATION
This type of figurative language is a form of expression particular to a specific person or group of people, but it is NOT LITERAL.
Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah.
Simile
What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
Hyperbole
BOOM! CUCKOO! DING! & BANG! What is the use of these words called in figurative language?
ONOMATOPOEIA
What is a comparison of two things using the words is and are?
METAPHOR
List 5 types of figurative language
ANY OF THESE....simile, metaphor, idiom, hyperbole, personification, repetition, alliteration, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, pun, irony, paradox, imagery
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: She was dying of laughter.
Hyperbole.
Identify the figurative language: I could sleep forever!
Hyperbole
What type of figurative language is where the same first letter sound repeats itself?
What is ALLITERATION?
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
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Identify the figurative language: out of the blue
What an idiom?
"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?
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.