What's That Mean?
This figurative device is known as a metaphor.
What is a figurative device that compares common characteristics of two unlikely things by implying that one thing is actually another?
Remember: Metaphors do not use the words “like” or “as.”
This descriptive language used in literature to help the reader clearly imagine what the writer is describing by using words that evoke their senses.
What is imagery?
This line from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Bells" is an example of this type of figurative language.
"How they clang, clash, and roar!"
What is an onomatopoeia?
Identify the figurative language and finish the sentence creatively.
"The baby was as quiet as a ________."
Simile - Mouse
This line is an example of this figurative language.
It's like comparing apples and oranges.
What is Idiom?
This figurative device is known as alliteration.
What is the repeating of same beginning sound, or closely related syllables, in a sentence.
This figurative device is used to compare the characteristics of two unlikely things using the words “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
In this Tracy Lawrence song by the same name, this line is an example of this type of figurative language.
"Time marches on, time marches on"
What is personification?
Identify the figurative language and finish the sentence creatively.
"The athlete was as fast as a ______."
Simile - Cheetah
This line from this Charlie XCX song is an example of this type of figurative language.
"Boom clap, the sound of my heart"
What is onomatopoeia?
This figurative device is known as Allusion.
What is the act of making an indirect reference in literature, (i.e. poems & short stories).?
This figurative device is a form of extreme language that uses exaggeration to intensify the image created in the reader’s mind. It is often humorous and isn’t literally possible.
What is hyperbole?
This line from William Wordsworth's poem of the same name is an example of this figurative device.
"I wandered lonely as a cloud"
What is a simile?
Identify the figurative language and finish the sentence creatively.
"My backpack is a ______."
Metaphor - Brick
This line from this Taylor Swift song is an example of this type of figurative language.
"You were Romeo, I was a Scarlet Letter."
What is metaphor?
This is a literary device known as onomatopoeia.
What are words whose sounds suggest, resemble or imitate the sound of what they are describing?
This figurative device is when the writer gives human characteristics or actions to non-human things such as objects or animals.
What is personification?
This line from The Outsider by S.E. Hinton is an example of this type of figurative device.
"I was suffocating and I was miserable."
What is hyperbole?
Identify the figurative language and finish the sentence creatively.
"The old house ______ at night."
Personification - whispered
This lyric from this Papoose song is an example of this type of figurative language.
“Ten o’clock Tuesday, Tahoe traveling through traffic"
What is alliteration
This figurative device is known as an idiom.
What is a commonly used phrase or expression that means something different from the literal meaning of what is said?
This figurative device is when an object, person, or situation represents something beyond its literal meaning. For example, colors, animals, or objects.
What is symbolism?
This line from Edgar Allan Poe's, "The Tell-Tale Heart" is an example of this type of figurative language.
“- now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton."
What is Sensory Language?
Identify the figurative language and finish the sentence creatively.
"I was so hungry I could ______."
Hyperbole - Eat a horse.
This lyric from this Sabrina Carpenter song is an example of this type of figurative language.
"I slam the door / I hit ignore"
What is imagery?