Figurative Language Jeopardy

1

100

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

What is a simile?

200

Name the figurative language: Oink!

What is an onomatopoeia?

300

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

What is personification?

400

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

What is a metaphor?

500

Create your own personification

Any response using personification

2

100

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

What is personification?

200

Create your own simile.

Response must compare two unlike things using like or as. 

300

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

Simile

400

Name the figurative language: Beat around the bush.

What is an idiom?

500

Name the figurative language: Kate quickly captured the curious cat. 

What is an alliteration?

3

100

Your friend is going on stage and you say "Break a leg!" What do you mean? 

Good luck! 

200

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

Personification 

300

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

What is a simile?

400

Create a sentence that personifies an alarm clock. 

The alarm yelled at me to wake up. 

500

Identify the figurative language: "Costs an arm and a leg."

What an idiom?

4

100

Name the figurative language: "He let the cat out of the bag."

Idiom

200

Name the figurative language: The water was a glove that enveloped the swimmer’s body.

Metaphor.

300

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

Metaphor

400

Name the figurative language: Johnny is feeling under the weather?

Idiom.

500

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

Simile

5

100

Name that figurative language: I haven't seen you for 100 years!

What is hyperbole?

200

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

300

Define hyperbole

What is an extreme exaggeration?

400

Name that figurative language: Silly Sally sang songs so sweetly at the seashore.

What is alliteration?

500

How does figurative language make writing better for the reader?

Figurative language can appeal to the senses, makes writing more entertaining (funnier).