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100

This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."

What is a simile?

100

This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.

What is personification?

100

This type of figurative language is when words mimic sounds!

What is Onomatopoeia

100

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

100

the type of language that uses non-literal words or phrases to convey a meaning beyond their literal definition, creating more vivid imagery and emotional impact

Figurative language

200

This type of figurative language compares two things by saying one thing IS another thing.

What is a metaphor?

200


This type of figurative language makes an extremely exaggerated statement.

What is Hyperbole

200

Name the figurative language:  "I'm so tired I could sleep 100 hours". 

Hyperbole

200

What type of figurative language is "I love eating jumbo shrimp.:

What is an oxymoron?

200

Name the figurative language: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Alliteration

300

Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.

What is a metaphor?

300

Name that figurative language that can be words or phrases that aren't literal.


Idioms

300

Name the figurative language:  "The deafening silence came as a surprise."

Oxymoron

300

Which figurative language is used as a form of wordplay, typically to add humor?

AKA "Dad" jokes

puns

300

The type of figurative language when something is opposite of the expected or what is said

irony

400

Name the figurative language: "The car's engine groaned when I turned the key!"

Personification

400

Name the type of figurative language used?

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!!

Hyperbole

400

Name the figurative language: Sunny skies and soft sand made the perfect summer day.

What is ALLITERATION?

400

Name the figurative language: "He had the strength of Hercules!"


Allusion

400

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

500

Name the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us. 

Personification 

500

Name the figurative language:

The bacon was sizzling in the pan as it cooked

Onomatopoeia

500

Name the figurative language:

The soft breeze blew my hair as the warm sun touched my skin, and I could smell my mother's sweet cinnamon apple pie through the window.

Imagery

500

Name the figurative language: 

You don’t have to be Albert Einstein to understand poetry.


Allusion

500

Name the figurative language: "My grandmother's green thumb made her garden flourish."

2 possible

Alliteration and/or idiom