Name It
Example
How Many?
Boring Language
From the Text
100
She is as funny as a barrel of monkeys.
What is a Simile?
100
Simile
Uses "like" or "as"
100
Katherine had been working on a project for the science fair for 3 weeks. She was so nervous to present it in front of the whole school! When she was waiting for the bus, her dad said "Be as cool as a cucumber!" After the presentation, Katherine thought "That was as easy as ABC!"
What is 2?
100
The sorry engine wheezed its death cough.
The sorry engine made one final noise before it stopped.
100
"They were stacking up in my head like loaves in the factory where Uncle Terry works“
What type of figurative language is this?
What is a Simile?
200
The road was a ribbon stretching across the desert.
What is a metaphor?
200
Metaphor
Doesn't use "like" or "as"
200
Let them be as flowers,
always watered, fed, guarded, admired,
but harnessed to a pot of dirt.
I'd rather be a tall, ugly weed,
clinging on cliffs, like an eagle
wind-wavering above high, jagged rocks.
What is 2?
200
“Food?” Chris inquired, popping out of his seat like a toaster strudel.
“Food?” Chris inquired, popping out of his seat quickly.
200
“I felt the feeling like a balloon inside my chest and it was so big I found it hard to breathe.”
What type of figurative language is this?
What is a simile?
300
I am so excited. My pulse is a race car.
What is a metaphor?
300
Personification.
Giving inanimate objects human-like characteristics
300
Poised between going on and back, pulled
Both ways taut like a tight-rope walker,
Now bouncing tiptoe like a dropped ball,
Or a kid skipping rope, come on, come on!…
Taunts them, hovers like an ecstatic bird,
He’s only flirting, crowd him, crowd him. . .
What is 3?
300
The detective listened to her tales with a wooden face.
The detective listened to her tales with no expression
300
“Furthest away in the sky were lots of little white clouds which looked like fish scales or sand dunes.”
Translate?
Furthest away in the sky were lots of little white clouds which were in a pattern.
400
Edwin heard the last piece of pie calling his name.
What is personification?
400
Personification with a simile
Giving inanimate objects human-like characteristics & uses "like" or "as"
400
What is 5?
400
Jan ate the hot dog despite the arguments it posed to her digestive system.
Jan ate the hot dog despite how it will make her digestive system feel.
400
Then Father said we had to get home before the roads got busy.
What type of figurative language is this?
What is personification?
500
The car complained as the key was turned.
What is Personification?
500
Pun
Joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word
500
Tony is the best. He's like my best friend.
What is 0?
500
Peggy heard the last piece of cheesecake in the refrigerator calling her name.
Peggy wanted the last piece of cheesecake.
500
“I laughed my socks off. He was the apple of my eye. They had a skeleton in the cupboard. We had a real pig of a day. The dog was stone dead.”
How many pieces of figurative language are here?
What is 5?