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
uses non-literal words or phrases to convey a meaning beyond their literal definition, creating more vivid imagery and emotional impact. A.K.A.: what we are learning about.
Figurative language
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 "I love eating jumbo shrimp.:
What is an oxymoron?
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 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
Name the figurative language: "He had the strength of hercules
Allusion
Name the figurative language: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Alliteration
Name the figurative language: "My grandmother's green thumb made her garden flourish."
Alliteration
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
Which figurative language technique is used in this sentence, and what does the phrase mean?
“When the teacher announced the surprise test, everyone was on the same page about how they felt.”
Idiom. It means that everyone agreed or felt the same way.
Name the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
“I’ve told you a million times to bring your homework!” What technique is being used, and what does it suggest?
Hyperbole. The speaker is exaggerating to show frustration.
Identify the two techniques used in the following sentence: “The furious fire fiercely flashed and flickered through the forest.”
Alliteration and personification
List all 7 types of figurative language we have looked at this week.
simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, idiom, oxymoron