Figurative Language

Identify the Figurative Language

100

The wind screamed outside of my window.

What is personification

200

School is a prison for students 8 hours a day.

What is a metaphor.

300

I want money. I want success. I want it all.

What is Rule of Three.

400

Her smile was the sunshine that brightened my dark soul.

What is oxymoron.

500

Hourly joys be still upon you! Juno sings her blessings on you. Scarcity and want shall shun you . . . Ceres blessing is so on you!

What is repetition.

Identify the Figurative Language

100

My love for you is as deep as an ocean.

simile

200

Life is pain.

metaphor

300

Nick’s nephew needed new notebooks now

alliteration

400

I'm so hungry I could eat 50 pizzas!

hyperbole

500

The flowers begged for water.

personification

Define

100

simile

compares 2 things using "like" or "as"

200

personification

giving human characteristics to something that is not a human

300

hyperbole

extreme exaggeration

400

alliteration

repetition of the first letter or sound of 2 or more neighboring words

500

oxymoron

What is a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear

Denotation/Connotation//Mood/Tone

100

What is the tone of the following: She could not wait until tomorrow: it was her birthday.

anticipation

200

What is the mood of the following: "I don't live at all when I'm not with you. My world is you."

What is love

300

What is the connotation in the following: The stench coming from the kitchen told me my brother was cooking.

The food is going to be trash.

400

What is the denotation of the following: After being in the rain all day, Susie is blue.

What is the color

500

What is the mood of the following: Although the company's profits were high, they decided to layoff many of their employees.

Frustrated or angry