Figurative Language
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Definitions
Bonus/Wager Question
100
Name the type of figurative language. "Bet he was just full of fleas from somewhere."
What is alliteration?
100
What part of the following selection is a simile? "Her face was the color of a dirty pillowcase, and the corners of her mouth glistened with wet, which inched like a glacier down the deep groves enclosing her chin."
What is "inched like a glacier"
100
A figure of speech involving the comparison of two or more things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
200
Name this type of figurative language. ''Aunty said that one had to behave like a sunbeam.''
What is a simile?
200
What part of the following selection is alliteration? "In the light from its bare bulb, Atticus was sitting propped against the front door."
What is "bare bulb"?
200
A word that imitates a sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
Name the type of figurative language. "Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it"
What is personification?
300
What part of the of the following selection is a alliteration? "He made me start of on the wrong foot."
What is "made me"?
300
A figure of speech in which nonhuman things are given human attributes.
What is personification?
400
Name this type of figurative language. ''Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree-house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.''
What is metaphor?
400
What part of the following selection is onomatopoeia? "The bees buzz angrily when their hive is disturbed."
What is buzz?
400
The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
500
Name this type of figurative language. "Smoke was rolling off our house and Ms. Rachel's house like fog off a river bank."
What is a simile?
500
What part of the following selection is personification? "The fire was well into the second floor and had eaten its way to the roof: window frames were black against a vivid orange center."
What is "eaten its way to the roof"?
500
A deliberate exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
500
Name as many figurative language examples that you can identify in this selection. "The house was the same, droopy and sick, but as we stared down the street we thought we saw an inside shutter move. Flick. A tiny, almost invisible movement and the house was still."
What is personification and onomatopoeia?
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