Definitions
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Name the figurative language: I went to the beach and watched the waves dance in the wind.
Personification
Name the figurative language: The stars danced in the night.
DOUBLE
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
Identify the figurative language below:
"To the guy who invented zero, thanks for nothing."
Pun
What is the repetition of the same sounds in a series of words called?
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: Patterson's plaid purple painted puppy plays with poppies.
DOUBLE
Alliteration
This type of figurative language says something but it means something else
DOUBLE
Idiom
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: "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
Name the figurative language: We're two peas in a pod.
Metaphor
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
DOUBLE
What is a metaphor?
Name the figurative language: My backpack weighs a ton from all my homework.
DOUBLE
What is a hyperbole?
Identify the figurative language below (two types):
The teacher terrifies students like Thanos terrifies trillions across the universe."
Alliteration and Allusion
Name the figurative language: Johnny is feeling under the weather?
Idiom.
List 6 types of figurative language
DOUBLE
Onomatopoeia, Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, Idiom, Personification, Alliteration
What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
Hyperbole
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
DOUBLE
What is a metaphor?
Identify the figurative language: "Costs an arm and a leg."
What an idiom?
Name the figurative language: The air was as cold as ice.
Simile
Identify the figurative language below:
The criminal roamed the streets of Atlanta like he was Jack the Ripper.
Allusion