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: "He let the cat out of the bag."
Idiom
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 type and explain the meaning of the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification / It was a sunny day- the sun was shining.
This type of figurative language places two words next to each other that have opposite meanings.
What is an oxymoron?
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
Well-known phrase or expression that has been used throughout time and has another meaning then what is being said.
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: "Jake was as slow as a sloth while getting dressed in the morning"
What is a simile?
Name and explain the figurative language: "The boy was a sky scraper, towering over all the other students".
Metaphor- the boy was very tall
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?
Name the figurative language: The tragically beautiful play was over 2 hours long.
What is an oxymoron?
Identify the figurative language: The bee buzzed around my head.
What is onomatopoeia?
Name the figurative language: Johnny is feeling under the weather?
Idiom.
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
This type of figurative language can often be seen in comic books.
Onomatopoeia
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.
What is a metaphor?
Identify and explain the figurative language: "The house costs an arm and a leg."
What an idiom / The house was very expensive
Name the figurative language: Her heart was as cold as ice.
Simile
How does figurative language make writing better for the reader?
Figurative language can appeal to the senses, makes writing more interesting