Definitions
Multiple Choice
What is it?
What is the meaning?
100

Extreme exaggeration.

What is hyperbole?

100

Frankie frolicks for fifty flowers.

A) Metaphor B) Alliteration C) Hyperbole  

What is (B) alliteration?

100

BAM! SPLASH!

What is onomatopoeia?

100

It's raining cats and dogs.

What is raining very hard?

200

A comparison using like or as.

What is a simile?

200

The walls began to walk towards me. 

A) Personification B) Onomatopoeia C) Idiom

What is (A) personification?

200

My computer throws a fit every time I try to use it.

What is a personification?

200

Time is a thief.

What is time passes quickly.

300

Giving something that is not human, human traits.

What is personification?

300

I have to hit the books this weekend.  

A) Metaphor C) Idiom D) Hyperbole

What is an idiom?

300

I'm ready for you to spill the beans. 

What is an idiom?

300

His heart is a rock.

 What is he shows no emotion/has no feelings.

400

When a phrase means something deeper than the actual words.

What is an idiom?

400

He's as funny as a book.

A.) simile B.) metaphor C.) pun

What is a simile (A)?

400

I'm dying of laughter! 

What is hyperbole?

400

Hit the books

What is studying?

500

 A group of words close together that start with the same sound or letter

What is alliteration?

500

The rain went tap-tap-tap on the roof.

What is Onomatopoeia?

500

Sally sells seashells by the seashore

What is alliteration?

500

Don't let the cat out of the bag.

What is revealing a secret?