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100

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

What is a simile?

100

Name the figurative language: The stars danced in the night.

What is personification?

100

Identify the figurative language "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

What is alliteration?

100

Name the figurative language: "Birds of a feather flock together"

Idiom

100

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

200

The repetition of the same consonant sounds in the beginning. 

Alliteration 

200

Identify the example: The slithering snake stalked the small children. 

Alliteration 

200

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

Personification 

200

Name the figurative language: His beating heart showed his true feelings for his talking stage. 

Symbolism

200

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

300

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

What is personification?

300

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

Hyperbole

300

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

What is a simile?

300

Name the figurative language: "The boy was a sky scraper, towering over all the other students".

Metaphor

300

Name the type of figurative language that has this definition. 

A phrase that shows exaggeration that cannot possibly be true. 

Hyperbole 

400

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

What is a metaphor?

400

Name the figurative language: She left her hometown like a bird flying south. 

Simile

400

Identify the figurative language: The bee buzzed around my head. 

What is onomatopoeia?

400

Name the figurative language: Johnny is feeling under the weather

Idiom.

400

Name the figurative language:

She walked into school and could smell the freshly cut grass. She could hear 6 or 7 other kids making jokes in the distance. She focused on the minty flavor of her gum as she walked to meet her friend. 

Imagery

500

Using descriptive language that appeals to the 5 senses: sight, sound, taste, touch, smell

Imagery

500

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

What is a metaphor?

500

Identify the figurative language: "The car costs an arm and a leg."

What an idiom?

500

Name the figurative language: The air was as cold as ice.

Simile

500

When a word or image is used to represent something else 


symbolism