Comparisons
Weird sayings and exaggerations
Humans and Sound Effects
Repeated References
Same Sound Opposites
100
A comparison between two unlike things, by saying something IS something else.
What is a metaphor?
100
An expression in which the words do not mean what they have stated.
"It's raining cats and dogs" is one example.
What is an idiom?
100
When a nonhuman thing is described with human characteristics, we call it this.
What is personification?
100
Repeating the same consonant sound within a line or section.
What is alliteration?
100
A play on words or joke that depends on the words having similar sounds or a double meaning.
What is a pun?
200
A comparison between two unlike things, using the words “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
200
An extreme exaggeration used to emphasize an idea.
What is hyperbole?
200
This is when a word sounds exactly like its meaning, like crack or boom.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
A reference to another work of art, literature, history, or other popular culture.
What is an allusion?
200
A figure of speech in which two contradictory terms appear together.
What is an oxymoron?
300
Is the following a simile or a metaphor?
His smile was the sunshine in a cloudy day.
What is a metaphor?
300
"This homework is going to take forever!" is an example of this.
What is hyperbole?
300
The type of figurative language used here:
What is personification?
300
"Get back to Wonderland!" is an allusion to this popular children's book and Disney movie.
What is Alice in Wonderland?
300
This is an example of this literary device.
What is a pun?
400
Is the following a simile or a metaphor?
My room looks as though a tornado went through it.
What is a simile?
400
"I think their behavior really raised a lot of red flags," is an example of this.
What is an idiom?
400
The words that show personification in both of these two passages:
The trees danced playfully in the rain.
The flowers were begging for water.
What is "trees danced" and "flowers were begging"?
400
If a character is a sci-fi dystopian novel says, "We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto!" it is an example of this.
What is an allusion?
400
It is the oxymoron is this sentence:
Her mouth was open in a silent scream.
What is "silent scream"?
500
The comparison being made in this extended metaphor is between these two things.
What is hope and a bird?
500
If you tell your friend their answer "really hit the nail on the head," what do you mean?
They got the answer exactly right.
500
The type of figurative language highlighted here:
What is onomatopoeia?
500
Identify the words that make the alliteration in this excerpt from Poe's The Raven:
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;
What is deep, darkness, doubting, dreaming dreams dared, and dream?
500
The answer to this joke is a pun.
What should you give a lemon that needs help?
What is lemon-aid?