Simile or Metaphor
Hyperbole or Personification
Hyperbole, Onomatopoeia or Idiom
CHALLENGE
100

This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."

What is a simile?

100

Name the figurative language: "The car's engine groaned when I turned the key!"

What is personification?

100

The sound of a car tire screeching against the road would be an example of what type of figurative language?

Onomatopoeia

100

True or false: We can enhance our writing by adding figurative language.

True

200

Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"

What is a simile?

200

Name the figurative language: She was dying of laughter.

Hyperbole.

200

Identify the figurative language: I could sleep forever!

Hyperbole

200

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

300

This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.

What is a metaphor?

300

Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us. 

Personification 

300

This type of figurative language is when words mimic sounds! 

What is Onomatopoeia

300

This is a phrase or expression whose meaning cannot be derived from the literal meanings of the words.

What is an IDIOM

400

Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.

What is a metaphor?

400

This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.

What is personification?

400

Identify the figurative language: out of the blue

What an idiom?

400

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. 

500

Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah. 

Simile

500

What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."

Hyperbole

500

BOOM! CUCKOO! DING! & BANG! What is the use of these words called in figurative language?

ONOMATOPOEIA

500

"I've told you a million times to clean your room!" is an example of hyperbole. (True/False)


TRUE