Metaphors are like similes without like or as.
Alliteration and Onomatopoeia
Personification
Hyperbole and Idioms
What am I?
100
Your love is like a red, red rose.
simile
100
What is this an example of?
Slithery, Slidery, Scaly Old Snake
Slithery, slidery, scaly old snake,
surely your body must be a mistake.
Your eyes, mouth and tongue wisely stay on your head.
It seems that your body is all tail instead.
You gobble your dinner, you swallow it whole --
a mouse or a frog or a turtle or mole.
Ugh!
Why don' you eat ice cream or chocolatey cake!
Oh slithery, slidery, scaly old snake.
Alliteration
100
The mouth of the cave yawned in the morning sun.
What does this mean?
100
What is this an example of?
She’s so sweet you could get a cavity from talking to her.
hyperbole
100
Come and clean the chaos in your closet.
alliteration
200
My corndog was as cold as a frog's belly.
simile
200
What is this an example of?
I saw an ol' gnome
Take a gknock at a gnat
Who was gnibbling the gnose of his gnu.
I said, "Gnasty gnome,
Gnow, stop doing that.
That gnat ain't done gnothing to you."
He gnodded his gnarled ol' head and said,
"'Til gnow I gnever gnew
That gknocking a gnat
In the gnoodle like that
Was gnot a gnice thing to do."
alliteration
200
Find the personification.
But the house on Mango Street is not the way they told it at all. It’s small and red with tight steps in front and windows so small you’d think they were holding their breath.
windows so small you’d think they were holding their breath
200
What is this an example of?
Even though it was test day, Suzie was cool as a cucumber.idiom
200
He is a night owl.
metaphor
300
Kara is a silly goose.
metaphor
300
Find the onomatopoeia.
"Horsey horsey don't you stop
Just let your feet go clippetty clop
The tail goes swish and the wheels go round
Giddy up, we're homeward bound."
clippetty clop, swish
300
Find the personification.
"You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes
You're paralyzed
'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
And no one's gonna save you from the beast about to strike."
- "Thriller" by Michael Jackson
terror takes the sound
horror looks you right between the eyes
300
Find the idiom. What does it mean?
Billy was late for work. He spilled coffee on his new shirt. At lunch, he dropped his sandwich in the trashcan. During a conference call, he started sneezing uncontrollably and knocked his water bottle over on the new business contracts. It was time to call it a day!
It was time to call it a day.
time to quit
300
Nothing annoys me more than rapidly clicking your pen.
onomatopoeia-clicking
400
Find the simile or metaphor. What does it mean?
While I was at school yesterday, our air conditioning went out on the hottest day of summer. I came home and it was a sauna in my house!
metaphor
400
What is this an example of?
“It SHUSHES
It hushes
The loudness in the road.
It flitter-twitters,
And laughs away from me.
It laughs a lovely whiteness,
And whitely whirls away,
To be
Some otherwhere,
Still white as milk or shirts,
So beautiful it hurts.”
onomatopoeia
400
Find the personification.
This weekend, we went on a long trip to visit my grandmother. I had been waiting for this trip for a long time. I was so excited. We pulled into the driveway and walked up to the door. The smell of muffins welcomed us inside. I knew it was going to be a great week.
muffins "welcomed" us inside
400
Is this hyperbole or idiom?
What does it mean?
She added fuel to the fire by telling all those lies.
Idiom
To add to an existing problem.
400
Lightning danced across the sky.
personification
500
Find the simile or metaphor. What does it mean?
My teacher had us watch a video today in class. It was one hour long. It was like watching paint dry.
simile
500
What is this an example of?
“There was a rustling that seemed like a bustling
Of merry crowds justling at pitching and hustling,
Small feet were pattering, wooden shoes clattering,
Little hands clapping and little tongues chattering,
And, like fowls in a farm-yard when barley is scattering…”
onomatopoeia
500
Give an example of personification.
500
What is this an example of?
What does it mean?
- We don't have two cents to rub together.
hyperbole
poor
500
You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear.
idiom
You can't make something beautiful out of something not beautiful.
