Metaphor and Simile
Personification and Hyperbole
Potpourri
Alliteration and Onomatopoeia
Name that Literary Device
100
This form of figurative language uses 'like' or 'as' to compare two unlike objects and create an image in the reader's mind.
What is simile?
100
This is the definition of personification.
What is giving human or people - like qualities to things that are not human?
100
State an example of hyperbole.
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100
This is the definition of onomatopoeia.
What is a word formed from the sound it is describing?
100
Name the literary device used: The sunlight skipped and danced across the lake.
What is personification?
200
This form of figurative language directly compares two unlike objects to create an image in the reader's mind.
What is metaphor?
200
This is the definition of hyperbole.
What is over-exaggeration?
200
Create an example of personification.
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200
This is the definition of alliteration.
What is the repetition of the same sound in a sentence or line of writing?
200
Identify the literary device used in the following passage: Sally sells seashells down by the seashore.
What is alliteration?
300
Identify the simile in the following passage: Mindy just got a new job at a big company. She has been working like a dog! Her boss isn’t very nice and yells at her almost every day. Last week, he told her she needed to redo a big project that took her 2 weeks to do!
What is 'She has been working like a dog!"?
300
Identify the hyperbole in the following passage: Marian wanted a summer job. If I just had a job, she thought, I could buy everything I ever wanted. However, she was nervous about going on a job interview. She was so nervous that she felt as shaky as a leaf on a tree.
What is 'I could buy everything I ever wanted'?
300
Change the simile to a metaphor: Her eyes were as blue as the ocean.
What is 'her eyes were a blue ocean'?
300
Identify the alliteration in the following passage: Yes we’ll walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And we’ll go where the chalk-white arrows go, For the children, they mark, and the children, they know The place where the sidewalk ends.
What is we'll walk with a walk?
300
Identify the literary device used: "CRASH! The car connected with the tree with a loud bang."
What is onomatopoeia?
400
Identify the metaphor in the following passage: After Ashley’s older brother moved away to college, she got her family’s old car. It was 20 years old and very rusty! Her mom thought the car was a lemon but her dad just thought it was a diamond in the rough. Ashley was just happy she finally had a car to drive!
What is What is the car was a lemon -or- it was a diamond in the rough?
400
Identify the personification in the following passage: “Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide."
What is "and stands about the woodland ride" -or- 'wearing white for Eastertide"?
400
Create an example of a simile.
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400
List three words that are examples of onomatopoeia.
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400
Identify the literary device used: "The roots of the tree stretched into the ground for miles, making it difficult to remove."
What is hyperbole?
500
Create an example of a metaphor.
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500
Identify the literary device used in the following sentence: The trees danced wildly in the screaming wind.
What is personification?
500
Change the metaphor to a simile: He had a smile that was sunshine.
What is 'his smile was as bright as the sun'?
500
Create a sentence that uses alliteration in at least three words.
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500
Identify the simile and metaphor in the following passage: Bob is the shining star of the high school football team. The team is made up of 20 high school boys. They are as athletic as antelope and are going to the state high school football tournament this upcoming weekend. Bob and his team are hoping for the sweet smell of success!
What is What is What is 'Bob is the shining star' (metaphor) and 'As athletic as antelope' (simile)?
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