Definitions 1
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."
What is alliteration?
Name the figurative language: "He let the cat out of the bag."
Idiom
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
The use of a word to describe or imitate a natural sound made by an object or action.
Onomatopoeia
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
Name the figurative language: The water was a glove that surrounded the swimmer.
Metaphor.
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
A phrase or expression that has been used throughout time and has another meaning than what is being said.
Idiom
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language: Bobby was as fast as a cheetah.
Simile
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: "The boy was a sky scraper, towering over all the other students".
Metaphor
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
A phrase that shows EXTREME exaggeration that cannot possibly be true.
Hyperbole
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Name the figurative language: My friend was in the talent show so I told her to break a leg!
What is an idiom?
Identify the figurative language: A fire hydrant that burst into flames, or a police station that was robbed
What is irony?
Name the figurative language: Johnny is feeling under the weather.
Idiom.
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
a part of something used to represent the whole (ie. All hands on deck) or the whole representing the part
Synechdoche
What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
Hyperbole
Peaceful War
What is a paradox?
Identify the figurative language: Mom said she had to go to the store to buy milk and it was going to cost an arm and a leg!
What an idiom?
Name the figurative language: This vacuum sucks
Pun
Four Lines of poetry is referred to as
A quatrain