Figurative Language
Simile or Metaphor
Simile or Metaphor
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: "The car's engine groaned when I turned the key!"
What is personification?
The sound of a car tire screeching against the road would be an example of what type of figurative language?
Onomatopoeia
True or false: We can enhance our writing by adding figurative language.
True
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: She was dying of laughter.
Hyperbole.
Identify the figurative language: I could sleep forever!
Hyperbole
Why do we use figurative language in our writing?
to help the reader better understand what we are trying to describe and make it more entertaining
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
This type of figurative language is when words mimic sounds!
What is Onomatopoeia
This type of figurative language is a form of expression particular to a specific person or group of people, but it is NOT LITERAL.
What is an IDIOM
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Identify the figurative language: out of the blue
What an idiom?
What is the difference between LITERAL language and FIGURATIVE language.
Literal language means exactly what is said while figurative language has different meanings than the words that are used.
Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah.
Simile
What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
Hyperbole
BOOM! CUCKOO! DING! & BANG! What is the use of these words called in figurative language?
ONOMATOPOEIA