Name That FL
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language:
My blankets crawled up my legs to my face.
Personification
What is hyperbole?
Your friend is going on stage and you say "Break a leg!" What do you mean?
Good luck!
Create your own alliteration.
Some sentence with the beginning of each word with the same letter.
Name the figurative language: Oink!
What is an onomatopoeia?
Name the figurative language: The water was a glove that enveloped the swimmer’s body.
Metaphor.
Name the figurative language:
My room is a pigsty.
Metaphor
How does figurative language make writing better for the reader?
Figurative language can appeal to the senses, makes writing more entertaining (funnier).
Create your own simile.
Response must compare two unlike things using like or as.
Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah.
Simile
Name the figurative language:
Karey's pencil raced across the page as she wrote.
Personification
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
What is a simile?
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Create your own hyperbole.
An exaggeration of a statement or claim.
Name the figurative language: The stars danced in the night.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language: The air was as cold as ice.
Simile
Name that figurative language: Silly Sally sang songs so sweetly at the seashore.
What is alliteration?
What does personification do?
It gives people traits to non-living things.
Create your own metaphor.
An appropriate response comparing two things with the words are and is.
Name the figurative language: Big bananas bouncing by.
What is an alliteration?
Name the figurative language: "The boy was a sky scraper, towering over all the other students".
Metaphor
Identify the figurative language: "That PS5 cost me an arm and a leg."
What an hyperbole?
What is the difference between a metaphor and a simile?
Metaphors use "Are" and "Is" while similes use "As" and "Like."
Create a sentence that personifies an alarm clock.
The alarm yelled at me to wake up.