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?
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah.
Simile
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the figurative language "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is alliteration?
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
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 exaggeration that cannot possibly be true.
Hyperbole
Identify the figurative language: The bee buzzed around my head.
What is onomatopoeia?
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
This type of figurative language can often be seen in comic books.
Onomatopoeia