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?
Identify the figurative language "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is alliteration?
Name the figurative language: "He let the cat out of the bag."
Idiom
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
The use of a word to describe or imitate a natural sound made by an object or action.
Onomatopoeia
double
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in the beginning.
Alliteration
triple
Identify the example: The slithering snake stalked the small mouse.
Alliteration
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
triple
The soft glistening snow fell to the earth and created a winter wonderland.
Imagery
double
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
A phrase or expression that has been used throughout time and has another meaning then what is being said.
Idiom
triple
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
double
Name the figurative language: The tiger crouched in the tall grass waiting to pounce.
Imagery
double
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
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
A phrase that shows exaggeration that cannot possibly be true.
Hyperbole
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Name the figurative language:
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick
What is an rhythm?
Identify the figurative language: The bee buzzed around my head.
What is onomatopoeia?
Name the figurative language: Johnny is feeling under the weather.
Idiom.
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
This type of figurative language can often be seen in comic books.
Onomatopoeia
This type of figurative language uses the five senses to create a visual picture in the reader's mind.
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
What literary device is the beat made by words and sounds?
Rhythm