Definitions
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 "Prior planning prevents poor performance."
What is alliteration?
What has four legs but can't walk?
A table
You are as strong as an ox.
What is you are very strong?
This type of figurative language is a when the word imitates the sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
Name the figurative language: I have a million things to do.
What is hyperbole?
Identify the figurative language: "I had to walk a crossed the whole world."
What is hyperbole?
What is smaller than an ant's mouth?
What the ant eats.
Don’t cry over spilled milk
What is there’s no reason to complain about something that can’t be fixed?
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language: BANG! POW! BOOM!
What is Onomatopoeia?
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
What is a simile?
What is the best month for a parade?
MARCH
You are on thin ice
What is if you make another mistake, there will be trouble?
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Name the figurative language: Bless your heart.
What is an idiom?
Identify the figurative language: The bee buzzed around my head.
What is onomatopoeia?
What goes up but never comes down?
Age
Birds of a feather flock together
What is people who are alike are often friends?
This type of figurative language has the same beginning sound in at least 2 words
What is an alliteration?
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the figurative language: "Costs an arm and a leg."
What an idiom?
What has wheels and flies, but is not an aircraft. What is it?
It is a garbage truck.
Don’t give up your day job
What is you’re not very good at what you are doing?