Name that Figurative Language!
What's Getting Compared?
What Does it Mean?
100

"The boy fought like a bear"

What is simile?

100

"Life is a highway, and I'm going to ride it all night long"

"Life and highway"

100

"Life is a rollercoaster"

"Life has its good and bad moments"

200

"Time waits for no one"

Personification

200

"She walked as gracefully as a cat"

What is her walk and cat?

200
"The camera loves me"

"I'm really photogenic"

300

"It's a thousand degrees in this classroom!"

"What is hyperbole?"
300

"Chaos is a friend of mine"

"Chaos and friend"

300

"He is older than the hills"

He is REALLY old

400

"Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly"

"What is metaphor?"

400

"All the world's a stage, and the men and women merely players"

"The world and a stage/theatrical production"
400

"They are the apple of my eye"

"They are very special to me"