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 used: This term for "the crown" often refers to the authority and power of the monarchy in literature.
What is metonymy?
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 enveloped the swimmer’s body.
Metaphor.
Name the figurative language: I just !LOVE! state testing days!
What is Verbal Irony?
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
Identify the figurative language: I just bought myself a nice new set of wheels!
What is synecdoche?
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
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?
What is allusion?
Identify the figurative language: The bee buzzed around my head.
What is onomatopoeia?
What figure of speech is used when someone says "all hands on deck," using a part to represent the whole crew?
What is Synecdoche?
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
This type of figurative language can often be seen in comic books.
Onomatopoeia
This is a literary device that involves the deliberate use of multiple conjunctions (such as "and," "or," "but," and "nor") in close succession, often more than is necessary.
What is Polysyndeton?
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
This literary device is illustrated by the phrase "less is more," which seems contradictory but reveals a deeper truth.
What is paradox?
Name the figurative language: The air was as cold as ice.
Simile
This figure of speech is used when a speaker directly addresses an absent person, abstract idea, or inanimate object, as in "O Death, where is thy sting?"
What is apostrophe?