Figurative Language Definitions
This figurative language uses all 5 senses to paint a picture in someone's head.
What is imagery?
This figure of speech is an extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
You are my sunshine.
What is a metaphor?
Boom, Kapow, Bang, Zip, Drip are all examples of the figure of speech.
What is onomatopoeia?
This figurative language gives non human objects human characteristics.
What is personification?
This figure of language uses the beginning consonant sound in a line or verse.
What is alliteration?
Act naturally.
What is an oxymoron?
Allianna is as sly as a fox.
What is a simile?
This figurative language uses like or as for an indirect comparison.
What is a simile?
This figure of speech is a direct comparison that does not use like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Peter Piper picked a pecked of pickled peppers.
What is alliteration?
The wind whispered through the fall leaves.
What is personification?
This figurative language has words that imitates the sound of the object or action it refers to.
What is onomatopoeia?
This figure of speech is a situation where the outcome is the opposite of what one would normally expect.
What is irony?
It cost an arm and a leg.
What is hyperbole?
It took forever to get a seat at the table.
What is a hyperbole?
This figurative language references a person, place, idea or thing in historical, literary, political, or cultural significance.
What is an allusion?
This is a figure of speech in which apparently opposite terms appear together.
What is an oxymoron?
Trust the (King) Midas Touch!
What is an allusion?
The fire truck was engulfed in flames.
What is irony?