Define It
An exaggeration statement or claim
What is hyperbole?
A phrase whose meaning can't be deduced by its words
What is an idiom?
What is a simile?
A type of figurative language that uses words to represent sounds?
What is onomatopoeia?
Life is one big rollercoaster ride.
What is a metaphor?
A joke that exploits the different possible meanings of a word.
What is a pun?
He was able to kill two birds with one stone by going to the ATM in Safeway while he was grocery shopping.
What is being able to get two things done at once?
Her red hair looked like a California sunset.
What is her hair and a California sunset?
The sound a duck would make
What is quack?
The car's brakes screamed at us as it came to a sudden halt.
What is personification?
This type of figurative language has a repetition of the same beginning sound in a phrase or poem.
What is alliteration?
He was pulling my leg when he told me that we had won the lottery.
What is joking with me or pranking me?
Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow
What is the lamb's fleece and snow?
Two hands brought together in celebration
The warrior has a heart of stone.
What is a metaphor?
This type of figurative language gives human qualities to something nonhuman.
What is personification?
My dad told me we couldn't purchase a new car because it would cost us an arm and a leg.
What is it would be very expensive?
He turned as white as a ghost when his teacher caught him cheating.
What is he and white as a ghost?
An electrical surge
What is zap?
When we were wrestling with my dad, he was throwing us around like John Cena.
What is allusion?
A passage or piece of writing that refers to something or calls something to mind
What is allusion?
Even though Taylor started the fight, we both had to miss recess because Mr. Jackson said it takes two to tango.
What is both people have to be involved for something to happen?
After lifting weights at the gym all night, his daughter felt as light as a feather when he picked her up to put her in the car seat.
What is his daughter and a feather?
AJR wrote a hit song for this onomatopoeia that is the sound a gun might make
What is bang?
The teacher said, "Geology rocks, but geography is where it's at."
What is a pun?