Definitions
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
The stars danced in the night.
What is personification?
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Name the figurative language: "He let the cat out of the bag."
Idiom
identify AND correctly spell the figurative language that deals with words that sound the way they are spelled
Onomatopoeia
The repetition of the same letter/sound in the beginning of consecutive words
Alliteration
The slithering snake stalked the small children.
Alliteration
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
Name the figurative language: Patterson's plaid purple painted puppy plays with poppies.
Alliteration
a figure of speech not to be taken literally
What is an Idiom?
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players."
What is a metaphor?
He 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 Grand Canyon was a piece of layered cake, the way the colors swirled"
Metaphor
I like to walk in the woods and listen to the song the trees and their leaves are singing.
Personification
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit
What is a simile?
My backpack weights a ton from all my homework.
What is a hyperbole?
Identify the figurative language: The bee buzzed around my head. BUZZZ!
What is onomatopoeia?
Name the figurative language: Johnny is feeling under the weather?
Idiom.
What is apostrophe?
"I'm so hungry I could eat the whole restaurant.
Hyperbole
"Death, Be Not Proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so;"
What is an apostrophe?
"It costs an arm and a leg."
What an idiom?
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
What is a metaphor?
"Why do you appear to be such a pain, math?"
What is an apostrophe?