Definitions 1
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: The stars danced in the night.
What is personification?
Identify the figurative language "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is alliteration?
Name the figurative language: "He let the cat out of the bag."
Idiom
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
The use of a word to describe or imitate a natural sound made by an object or action.
Onomatopoeia
The repetition of the same sounds in the beginning.
Alliteration
Identify the example: The slithering snake stalked the small children.
Alliteration
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
Name the figurative language: Did you see his shirt? It's pretty ugly
Oxymoron
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
A phrase that shows an extreme exaggeration
Hyperbole
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
Hyperbole
What did the sushi roll say to the bumblebee?
Wasabi
Pun
It is 98 degrees outside. You walk out the door and say "It's a bit warm out."
Understatement
This type of figurative language is a humurous (funny) use of a phrase or word to emphasize its meaning
Pun
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
The flowers look bright and happy now that Spring has begun.
Pathetic Fallacy
Identify the figurative language: The bee buzzed around my head.
What is onomatopoeia?
Name the figurative language:
The storm raged all night
Pathetic Fallacy
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
This type of figurative language is a short statement that contradicts itself
Oxymoron
An expression that means something different than what is said. Often does not make sense.
Idiom
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
I love ice cream so much, it is my kryptonite!
Allusion
Name the figurative language:
"Hello darkness, my old friend"
Apostrophe
A statement that is weakened in order to conve a stronger meaning
Understatement