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?
This is when a moment in the play hints at something that will happen later.
What is foreshadowing
This is a phrase the seems to contradict itself.
Oxymoron
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: "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
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?
"I'll look to like if looking liking move."
What is alliteration?
A form of poetry that includes 14 lines and is written in iambic pentameter
Sonnet
"Bright smoke, sick health, cold fire."
Oxymoron
One line of poetry that is made up of 5 feet, which totals 10 syllables.
IAMBIC PENTAMETER
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?
"I fear too early, for my mind misgives some consequence hanging in the stars"
What is foreshadowing?
Name the figurative language: The air 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 entertaining (funnier).
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
Name the figurative language: The water was a glove that enveloped the swimmer’s body.
Metaphor.
This is the term that describes a moment, on stage, when a character speaks his thoughts and feelings out loud, but only for the audience to hear.
What is a soliloquy