Figurative Language Jeopardy

Figurative Language 1

100

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

What is a simile?

200

This type of figurative language compares two things by saying one thing IS another thing.

What is a metaphor?

300

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

Simile

400

Name the figurative language: The cool, refreshing water quenched her thirst as the scorching sun radiated above.

Imagery

500

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

What is a metaphor?

Figurative Language 2

100

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

What is personification?

200

This type of figurative language makes an extremely exaggerated statement.

What is Hyperbole

300

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

Personification 

400

Name the figurative language: She was dying of laughter.

Hyperbole.

500

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

Personification

Figurative Language 3

100

Name the figurative language:  "The mind is like a parachute—it only works when it's open." 

Analogy

200

Name the figurative language: 

• "And so all the night-tide, I lie down by the side of my darling — my darling — my life and my bride"

Assonance

300

What type of figurative language offers a description as a kind mental image any of the five senses

What is Imagery

400

Name the figurative language: I wish I could just click my heels and go home. 

Allusion

500

Name the type of figurative language used?

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!!

Hyperbole

Figurative Language 4

100

This type of figurative language is when words mimic sounds!

What is Onomatopoeia

200

What type of figurative language is where the same first letter sound repeats itself? 

What is ALLITERATION?

300

This figurative language says harsh things in a polite manner.

What is a Euphemism?

400

The bacon was sizzling in the pan as it cooked

Onomatopoeia

500

Sunny skies and soft sand made the perfect summer day.

What is ALLITERATION?

Figurative Language 5

100

uses non-literal words or phrases to convey a meaning beyond their literal definition, creating more vivid imagery and emotional impact. A.K.A.: what we are learning about.

Figurative language

200

This type of figurative language has a person saying the opposite of what they mean.

Verbal Irony

300

What type of figurative language is the following?

The audience knows that Princess Fiona secretly transforms into an ogre at night, but Shrek doesn't realize this until the end of the story,

Dramatic Irony

400

What figurative language has a repetitive consonant sound in the middle or end of a sentence?

Consonance

500

Name that figurative language:

He was a wise fool who eventually won the competition.

Oxymoron