Definitions 1
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in the beginning.
Alliteration
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
Name the figurative language: The water was a glove that enveloped the swimmer’s body.
Metaphor.
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
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah.
Simile
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
What is a simile?
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: Bless your heart.
What is an idiom?
Name the figurative language: "The boy was a sky scraper, towering over all the other students".
Metaphor
What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
Hyperbole
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?
Identify the example: The slithering snake stalked the small children.
Alliteration
Name the figurative language: Johnny is feeling under the weather?
Idiom.
Name the figurative language: The air was as cold as ice.
Simile