Figurative Language 1
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language: "The deafening silence came as a surprise."
Oxymoron
This type of figurative language is when words mimic sounds!
What is Onomatopoeia
I saw a saw that could out-saw any other saw I ever saw.
Alliteration
This type of figurative language compares two things by saying one thing IS another thing.
What is a metaphor?
This type of figurative language makes an extremely exaggerated statement.
What is Hyperbole
Name the figurative language: "I'm so tired I could sleep 100 hours".
Hyperbole
What type of figurative language is where the repetition on the consonant sound is not in the beginning of words?
What is Consonance?
This type of figurative language is a kind of figurative speech that pairs two opposing words together. Combining these opposite words is also known as contradicting terms
What is oxymoron
Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah.
Simile
Name the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
LOSE YOUR TURN
SORRY
What figurative language is in this sentence, "Eat to live, and not live to eat."
Proverb or Adage
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY
DARE:
CALL MR. PETERS AND WISH HIM A HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY
LOSE YOUR TURN
SORRY
Name the figurative language: "My grandmother's green thumb made her garden flourish."
Idiom
The bacon was sizzling in the pan as it cooked
Onomatopoeia
What figurative language is in this sentence, "If you throw in the towel before you should, you'll never learn the value of hard work."
Idiom
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
Name the figurative language: "The car's engine groaned when I turned the key!"
Personification
Name the type of figurative language used?
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!!
Hyperbole
Identify the figurative language: Sunny skies and soft sand made the perfect summer day.
What is ALLITERATION?
Name that figurative language that can be words or phrases that aren't literal.
Idioms