Figurative Language
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This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language: Don't steal my thunder!
Idiom
This type of figurative language is when words mimic sounds!
What is Onomatopoeia
Words mean exactly what each on says.
Literal Language
This type of figurative language compares two things by saying one thing IS another thing.
What is a metaphor?
This type of figurative language makes an extremely exaggerated statement.
What is Hyperbole
Name the figurative language: "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
Hyperbole
What type of figurative language is where the same first letter sound repeats itself?
What is ALLITERATION?
This type of figurative language is a saying for a specific person or group of people, but it is NOT LITERAL.
What is an IDIOM
Name the figurative languuage: He was as fast as a cheetah.
Simile
Name the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
Name the figurative language: I've told you a million times to turn off the lights when you leave!
What is Hyperbole
The race car zoomed past the finish line.
Onomatopoeia
List 5 types of figurative language
simile, metaphor, idiom, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia
Name the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
Simile
Name the figurative language: She was dying of laughter.
Hyperbole.
Name the figurative language: Out of the blue
Idiom
The bacon was sizzling in the pan as it cooked
Onomatopoeia
Why do we use figurative language in our writing?
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
Name the figurative language: "The car's engine groaned when I turned the key!"
Personification
Give an example of an HYPERBOLE in a sentence about 'pizza'!
Example - Island Pub makes the greatest pizza in the world!
Sunny skies and soft sand made the perfect summer day.
What is ALLITERATION?
I ate cinnamon oatmeal for breakfast. Literal or Figurative?
Literal language