What is a simile?
Comparison using like or as
Label a simile and metaphor in this excerpt.
We just moved to this new town, and I hate it. Everyone here stares at me like owls, waiting for me to mess up. This place is a wasteland, all I see is trash and people like trash. I need to leave.
Simile: "stares at me like owls" or "people like trash"
Metaphor: "Place is a wasteland"
Is this personification or hyperbole?
It's so hot outside that I'm melting.
Hyperbole
What kind of room has no windows or doors?
Mushroom
When two words end in the same sound
Rhyme
A commonly used phrase that is not meant to be taken literally.
Idiom
"These walls have ears"
This sentence is an example of:
Personification
Laughter is the music of the soul.
Metaphor or Simile
What building has the most stories?
Library
Rhyming stanzas made up of two lines
Couplet
What is an allusion?
a reference to something well-known, such as a book, person, or event.
"The wind whistled a happy tune as I walked along the hard mountain trail."
What human characteristic is being given?
Whistling
Is this alliteration, onomatopoeia, or neither?
I can't live without you.
Bonus
Which literary device is the following examples above?
Neither
Hyperbole
Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
Incorrectly
A group of lines arranged together in a poem
"Kara has the heart of a lion."
What does it mean?
She is very brave.
Her smile was a mile wide!
Metaphor
Metaphor or Personification
He walked in the dead night.
Personification
What has branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves?
Bank
Language that means more than it says literally and is often used to create vivid impressions by introducing comparisons between dissimiliar things
Figurative Language
What is a hyperbole?
An over exaggeration
"The baby's skin was like a rose petal"
This sentence is an example of:
Simile
Idiom or Hyperbole
Peter decided to throw in the towel and stop his war with Grandpa.
Idiom
A girl has no sight. She lost her favorite book and her pencil, her wallet(with all of her money), some of her clothes, some cosmetics, and her purse. What did she loose first?
Her sight
A fourteen-line lyric poem
Sonnet