Definitions 1
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: The stars danced in the night.
What is personification?
Your friend is going on stage and you say "Break a leg!" What do you mean?
Good luck!
Name the figurative language: "He let the cat out of the bag."
Idiom
What does DEFINE means?
to the the definition of a word.
"I need you to clarify what you mean by that."
What am I asking you to do?
Explain more so that I can understand.
Create your own simile.
Response must compare two unlike things using like or as.
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
Name the figurative language: The water was a glove that enveloped the swimmer’s body.
Metaphor.
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
A well known phrase or expression that has another meaning then what is literally being said.
Idiom
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah.
Simile
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: "The boy was a sky scraper, towering over all the other students".
Metaphor
What does it mean to analyze a paragraph.
To look at the paragraph closely to gain a deeper understanding.
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Name the figurative language: Bless your heart.
What is an idiom?
Create a sentence that personifies an alarm clock.
The alarm yelled at me to wake up.
Name the figurative language: Johnny is feeling under the weather?
Idiom.
What does identify mean?
to point out something.
I sat by the beach and pondered of the meaning of life.
What does ponder mean?
To think carefully about something.
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the figurative language: "Costs an arm and a leg."
What an idiom?
Name the figurative language: The air was as cold as ice.
Simile
How does figurative language make writing better for the reader?
Figurative language can appeal to the senses, makes writing more entertaining (funnier).