What am I?
Definitions
What Does it Mean?
Simile or Metaphor?
Comparing What?
100
Simile, metaphor, and personification are all a type of me.
What is figurative language?
100
The term means "a comparison between two or more things using 'like' or 'as'."
What is simile?
100
I nearly died laughing!
What is I laughed a lot.
100
I compare without using 'as'.
What is metaphor?
100
Ted was as nervous as a cat with a long tail in a room full of rocking chairs.
What is Ted to a cat?
200
The use of words in such a was as to picture mental images.
What is Figurative Language?
200
A figure of speech which is an exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
200
"The flames ate hungrily at the burning house."
What is the house was engulfed by flames?
200
I compare using like.
What is simile?
200
The bar of soap was a slippery eel during the dog’s bath
What is soap to an eel?
300
Instead of saying, "garbage man," you say, "sanitation engineer."
What is euphemism?
300
The term means, "a comparison between two or more things without using 'like' or 'as'."
What is metaphor?
300
The fog crept silently into the valley.
What is the fog appeared quickly?
300
I state that one thing is something else.
What is metaphor?
300
Those girls are like two peas in a pod.
What is girls to peas?
400
"The sailboat danced gracefully past us," is an example of a _____.
What is personification?
400
A substitution of an agreeable or less offensive expression in place of one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the listener.
What is euphemism?
400
"The pillow was a cloud when I put my head upon it after a long day." Is an example of _______.
What is the pillow was soft ?
400
"The clown was a feather floating away," is an example of of a ______.
What is a metaphor?
400
No one invites Harold to parties because he’s a wet blanket.
What is Harold to a wet blanket?
500
"I nearly died laughing," is an example of a _____.
What is hyperbole?
500
Giving human characteristics to a nonhuman
What is personification?
500
I feel like a limp dishrag.
What is I'm Tired?
500
His feet were as big as a boat, is an example of a ____
What is a simile?
500
As the teacher entered the room she muttered under her breath, "This class is like a three-ring circus!"
What is the class to a three- ring circus?
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