Metaphor Mania
The meaning of this metaphor: "She’s a shining star in the classroom."
What is she's outstanding or excellent in class?
The statement that is a simile:
A) Time is a thief.
B) She’s as graceful as a swan.
C) The test was a nightmare.
What is option B?
The object being personified in this sentence: The alarm clock screamed at me this morning.
What is the alarm clock?
The exaggeration in this sentence: "I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!"
What is the person’s hunger? (They can’t actually eat a horse.)
The literary device in the phrase "Spill the tea," where 'tea' stands for the latest gossip.
What is a metaphor?
The option that contains a metaphor:
A) The wind howled through the night.
B) She ran as fast as lightning.
C) His anger was a raging storm.
What is option C?
The things being compared in this statement: Her smile was as bright as the sun.
What is her smile to the sun?
Which of these is an example of personification?
A) The sun smiled down on us.
B) The car is faster than a cheetah.
C) He was so hungry he could eat a horse.
D) I heard the clock go "tick, tick, tick" as I took my test.
What is option A?
The meaning of: "He had a mountain of homework last night."
What is he had a lot of homework? (not a literal mountain's worth)
The figurative language in the phrase "I'm dead," used to mean something is hilarious or shocking.
What is hyperbole?
The meaning of this metaphor: "His words were a double-edged sword."
What is his words had both positive and negative effects?
The specific figurative meaning of the following simile: "The marathon runner's legs felt like cement blocks during the last mile of the race."
What is the runner's legs feeling heavy?
The meaning of this sentence: "The wind whispered secrets through the ancient, deserted corridor."
What is the wind blowing softly through the old hallway?
Identify the sentence that is not hyperbolic:
A) I have a million things to do today.
B) She talks a mile a minute.
C) He won a million dollars by playing the lottery.
D) This outfit cost me an arm and a leg.
What is option C?
The device used when someone says their phone battery is "as dead as a doornail."
What is a simile?
The two things being compared in this metaphor: The metaphor being used in this sentence: "The new student was a deer caught in the headlights when the teacher called on him."
What are the new student and a deer in front of a car? (confusion)
The change needed to make this metaphor a simile: “He was a lion on the field."
What is adding the word "like" after the word "was"?
The moon danced across the night sky." What does this mean?
The moon appeared to move throughout the sky.
The purpose of using hyperbole.
What is to exaggerate or emphasize?
The rhetorical term for calling a powerful, successful athlete "The GOAT," referencing a widely known acronym.
What is allusion?
The metaphor in the song lyrics:
“You are my fire
The one desire
Believe when I say
I want it that way"
What is the person the song is written about, compared to the singer's heart/passion? (You are my fire)
The definition of a simile.
What is comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as"?
The personification in these song lyrics: "Because you know I'd walk a thousand miles if I could just see you tonight." (A Thousand Miles)
What is walking a thousand miles?
Read the passage. The sentence that includes the hyperbole:
(1) The student nervously approached the podium, clutching her notes so tightly her fingers were turning white. (2) The audience watched with quiet anticipation, waiting for her to begin her persuasive speech. (3) She was so terrified that a million butterflies were wrestling in her stomach. (4) With a deep breath, she began to speak, her voice surprisingly clear and strong.
What is sentence 3?
The term for the phrase "No Cap," which literally means "no lie" but is commonly used to mean "seriously" or "honestly."
What is an idiom?