Multiple Choice
Can You Use it in a Sentence?
What is the Definition?
What Does it Mean?
Straight out of the Text!
100
That lawyer is as sly as a fox. A. Simile B. Personification C. Hyperbole
A. Simile
100
Write a sentence using figurative language to say someone is hungry.
I was so hungry I could eat a horse.
100
What is a simile?
Comparing two unlike things using like or as.
100
My mom has a green thumb.
My mom is good at growing things.
100
"...though her heart was pounding and her backbone felt like a pipe full of cold running water, her head was fiercely calm."
Simile
200
He has a heart of stone. A. Metaphor B. Simile C. Personification
A. Metaphor
200
Write a sentence using figurative language to say someone is smart.
He was as bright as a light bulb!
200
What is an idiom?
A saying that does not mean what it literally says.
200
Sally had a frog in her throat.
Sally had a sore throat.
200
"Mae sat there frowning, a great potato of a woman with a round, sensible face and calm brown eyes."
Metaphor
300
I've told you a million times to clean your room! A. Idiom B. Hyperbole C. Simile
B. Hyperbole
300
Write a sentence using a hyperbole to say that it is hot outside.
It was a million degrees outside.
300
What is personification?
Giving animals or objects human-like qualities.
300
Don't beat around the bush.
Just get to the point.
300
"The house was so proud of itself that you wanted to make a lot of noise as you passed, and maybe even throw a rock or two."
Personification
400
The first rays of morning tiptoed through the meadow. A. Simile B. Idiom C. Personification
C. Personification
400
Write a sentence with a simile comparing something to lightning.
Sarah ran as fast as lightning!
400
What is a metaphor?
Comparing two unlike things by saying that something is something else.
400
The cat has got your tongue?
You don't want to talk or can't talk.
400
"Then, last of all, she pulled down over her ears a blue straw hat with a drooping, exhausted brim."
Personification
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