Figurative Language Definitions 1
This form of figurative language compares two different things with the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
This form of figurative language uses rich descriptive words and appeals to the five senses: sight, touch, smell, sound, and taste.
What is imagery?
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The clock ticked impatiently as midnight drew closer and closer.
What is Personification?
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The cat purred contently as it played with the colorful ball of string.
What is onomatopoeia?
This is the Bible account that Simone's father related to reinforce why Christians would refuse to say "Heil Hitler."
What is the story of the three Hebrew boys and King Nebuchadnezzar?
This form of figurative language compares two very different things by saying they are really the same.
What is a metaphor?
This form of figurative language has positive or negative associations with various words.
What is connotation?
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My brother didn't do anything over summer vacation. He is such a couch potato.
What is a metaphor?
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He was as stubborn as a mule.
What is a simile?
This is where Simone hides literature during a secret rendezvous with a brother who smuggles literature across the border.
What is Simone's girdle?
This form of figurative language exaggerates for effect.
What is a hyperbole?
This form of figurative language creates the illusion that an inanimate object or animal has human characteristics.
What is personification?
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She was inquisitive by nature, and couldn't help but ask the student many questions about themselves.
What is (positive) connotation?
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I've told you a million times: keep your cameras on!
What is a hyperbole?
This young man becomes a bible student and acts like a big brother to Simone, especially after her father is put into prison.
Who is Marcel Sutter?
This form of figurative language is the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
What is an onomatopoeia?
This form of figurative language cannot be understood literally. The words have different meanings and are often only understood by those in a specific culture or by those living in a specific time-period who are accustomed to using the saying.
What is an idiom?
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The salty, briny air tickled his nose.
What is imagery?
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I could already tell my negative thinking was going to lead me down a rabbit hole.
What is an allusion?
(Literary: Alice in Wonderland)
This is what happens to Simone when she refuses to attend the youth camp or do war-related work in school.
Why is Simone knocked unconscious by Mr. Ehrlich?
This form of figurative language repeats the same sound by using the same letter at the beginning of several words in row.
What is alliteration?
This form of figurative language refers to a well-known event, person, place, or writing in order to create depth and greater understanding without having to use many words.
What is an allusion?
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All Adam ate in August was apples and almonds.
What is alliteration?
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She had always been a sensitive girl and wore her heart on her sleeve.
What is an idiom?
This is where Simone hides a bible so she can read from it each day while doing chores at the reeducation home in Wessenberg.
What is under the teacher's bed?