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: Her smile was like a diamond, sparkling in the sun.
Simile
Name the figurative language: The boy cackled like a hyena
Simile
A word that descirbes a noun is called
Adjective
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
What figurative language means: the same sounds are repeated at the end of words, so they sound similar.
Rhyme.
The term when you want to find a word that means the same thing but is different
Synonym
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 a ghost, passing through the school unnoticed
Metaphor
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
A poetry paragraph is called a?
A stanza
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
What figurative language in this sentence: Mary ate berries while reading scary stories with her dog Harry.
Rhyme
Identify the figurative language: The bee bounced and buzzed.
What is alliteration?
I won't go to school today! I won't, I won't! I'd rather sit in bed.
Repetition
What is an adverb?
A word that describes an action and ends in -ly.
What type of figurative language is this? "The ice cream melted on my tongue, and the sweet flavor spread happiness through my body."
Imagery
Name the figurative language: The wind howled through the barren trees, scratching against the windowpane
Personification
The moon glowed in the night sky, washing the town in a bright white light. The stars sparkled in the distance and the owls hooted in the silence.
Imagery
What figurative language means when an object or thing stands for something other than itself?
Symbol
Dreams and hope and never giving up