Figurative Language
Figurative Language Lyrics
Sound Devices
Name that Character
Identify that Imagery
100
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile
100
"She's like the wind through my trees" -Lumidee
What is simile
100
This sound device occurs when an author uses a word, image, or sound more than once
What is repetition
100
This character is the only African American in the small Vermont town.
Who is Leanora Sutter
100
"Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water" -Walt Whitman
What is touch imagery
200
This type of figurative language compares two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor
200
"You can hear happiness staggering down the street, footsteps dressed in red" -The Eagles
What is personification
200
This sound device occurs when a word sounds like its meaning
What is onomatopoeia
200
This character often speaks in funny ways and is often persecuted because of her religion.
Who is Esther Hirsh
200
"The woods are lovely, dark, and deep" -Robert Frost
What is sight imagery
300
This type of figurative language makes a reference to another important book, song, person, place or event
What is an allusion
300
"But greed is a bottomless pit" -Bright Eyes
What is a metaphor
300
This sound device is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration
300
This character owns a restaurant and has a bootlegging business on the side.
Who is Iris Weaver
300
"I will always remember/how my mother smelled/fresh as blooming flowers/and clean as baby powder"
What is smell imagery
400
This type of figurative language applies human characteristics to non-human objects
What is personification
400
"We donate our money to the babies out in Haiti" -Nicki Minaj
What is allusion
400
This sound device occurs when an author uses similar sounds at the end of each line
What is rhyme
400
This character was removed from the Klan for having had sexual relations with a schoolgirl.
Who is Johnny Reeves
400
"Like the butterscotch pudding/I tried to cook, as a child/I burnt it it and even today/when I try to eat anything/with that flavor, it tastes burnt"
What is taste imagery
500
These are the two types of figurative language that you can immediately rule out if there are not two things being compared
What is simile and metaphor
500
"I swear it feels like the last few nights we've been everywhere and back" -Drake
What is hyperbole
500
This sound device is the pattern of the rhyme in a poem
What is rhyme scheme
500
This character thought that he could have gotten away with the perfect murder....and he could have gotten some money out of it.
Who is Merlin Von Tornhout
500
"Or watch the honeybees busy buzzing around the hive of a summer forenoon"
What is sound imagery
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