Similes, Metaphors & Personification
Complete the simile: "As brave as a _____."
What is lion?
Identify the onomatopoeic word in the following sentence: "The bees buzzed around the flowers."
What is buzzed?
If someone says, "It's just a scratch" when their car has significant damage, they are using this type of figurative language.
This type of irony occurs when the opposite of what is expected happens.
What is situational irony?
Identify the alliterative phrase in the sentence: "Grace gracefully glided across the grand stage."
What is "Grace gracefully glided"?
Identify the metaphor in the following sentence: "Time is a thief."
What is time?
Provide an example of an oxymoron.
What is "jumbo shrimp"?
If someone says, "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse," the expression is they type of figurative language.
What is hyperbole?
Explain the meaning of the idiom "burning the midnight oil."
What does it mean to work late into the night?
Someone referring to a situation as a "David and Goliath moment" is alluding to this.
Give an example of personification from the sentence: "The sun smiled down on the picnic."
What is the sun smiling?
In literature, what might a storm symbolize?
What is chaos or conflict?
Give an example of a euphemism for "passed away."
What is "gone to a better place"?
This type of irony occurs when the audience knows something that the characters in a story do not.
What is dramatic irony?
When a character is described as having a "Midas touch," this literary allusion is being made.
What is the allusion to Greek myth of King Midas who could turn everything he touched into gold?
Alex compared the sunset to a painting. What type of figurative language is this?
What is a simile?
"Deafening silence" is an example of this type of figurative language
What is an oxymoron?
If someone says, "I've told you a million times," they are using this type of figurative language.
What is hyperbole?
The meaning of the idiom "kick the bucket."
What does it mean to die?
Identify an example of assonance in the sentence: "The old oak groaned in the stormy afternoon"?
What is "old, groaned, stormy"?
Give an example of personification from the sentence: "The wind whispered through the trees."
What is the wind whispering?
In literature, a rose symbolizes this.
What is love or beauty?
Give an example of a euphemism for "getting fired.
What is "to let go" or "to downsize"?
This type of irony is when a speaker says one thing but means another resulting in a clash between their intended meaning and their literal words.
What is verbal irony?
Find the example of assonance in the following sentence: "The wise owl silently flies through the night sky
What is "wise, silently, night"?