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Figurative Language
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Name that Language
100
To establish something important that will have consequences later.
What is a prologue?
100
A device used to measure out a tempo by means of a signal that can be seen and/or heard
What is a metronome?
100
A figure of speech comparing two different things using the words “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
100
Easily seen or noticed: attracting attention
What is conspicuous?
100
Which figurative language is this statement? The football player is as strong as an ox
What is a simile?
200
A special room in the hospital where newly born babies sleep during the time they are not with their mothers.
What is a nursery?
200
Necessary; being the most important feature of something or somebody.
What is essential?
200
-A figure of speech comparing two different things without using the words “like” or “as.”
What is a metaphor?
200
Discolored or injured by the effects of wind, rain, and sun
What is weathered?
200
My mom has a heart of gold. She would do anything to help anyone.
What is a metaphor?
300
Having no importance or relation to what is being considered
What is irrelevant?
300
Unclear in meaning or form; not distinctly seen
What is vague?
300
a word or words that imitate a sound
What is an onomatopoeia?
300
Not following agreed standards of conduct especially in business or professions.
What is unethical?
300
Seven snakes slithered silently.
What is an alliteration?
400
Irritated or annoyed
What is vexed?
400
Showed something in a picture or painting or portrayed by describing in words
What is depicted?
400
-giving human characteristics to things that are not human
What is personification?
400
Secret or seeming to have hidden meaning
What is cryptic?
400
I have told you a million times.
What is a hyperbole?
500
Widely and favorably known
What is renowned?
500
A weight hung from a clock that swings back and forth, controlling the clockworks.
What is a pendulum?
500
-figurative language using the repetition of consonant sounds
What is an alliteration?
500
Made someone angry (often by repeatedly doing something) or describing someone who is angry for this reason
What is exasperated?
500
The sun smiled on the angry clouds.
What is personification?
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