Definitions 1
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
What is the underlying message or lesson of a story called?
Theme
Identify the figurative language "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is alliteration?
"May the force be with you" or "You're killing me Smalls" are examples of what figurative language?
Allusion
Name the type of figurative language that uses words to describe or imitate sounds.
Onomatopoeia
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in the beginning.
Alliteration
What is word choice known as?
Diction
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 is a common phrase or expression that has a figurative, not literal meaning.
Idiom
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
How the author makes you feel in a story is called what?
Mood
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
What is a simile?
It must be raining outside since everyone is carrying an umbrella.
That is an example of what?
Inference
Name the type of figurative language that is a reference to something well-known in literature, history, or pop culture.
Allusion
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
An educated guess based on what you know and read is called what?
Inference
Identify the figurative language: The bee buzzed around my head.
What is onomatopoeia?
In the movie Shrek, Donkey and the audience know that Fiona is an ogre, but Shrek does not know this.
This is an example of what?
Dramatic irony
Name the type of figurative language that appeals to the five senses and paints a picture with words.
Imagery
What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
Hyperbole
The author's attitude toward the reader or the subject is known as what?
Tone
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 is it called in literature when a character or the reader knows something that another character does not know?
Dramatic irony