Figurative Language
Simile or Metaphor
Simile or Metaphor
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: "The car's engine groaned when I turned the key!"
What is personification?
"Im so hungry I could eat a horse"
This is an example of a...
Hyperbole!
True or false: We can enhance our writing by adding figurative language.
True
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: She was dying of laughter.
Hyperbole.
Identify the figurative language: I could sleep forever!
Hyperbole
Why do we use figurative language in our writing?
to help the reader better understand what we are trying to describe and make it more entertaining
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
A hyperbole is...
An extreme exaggeration of the truth.
True or False?
When using Figurative Language everything said needs to be taken literally
False!
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
True or False
The following sentence is a Hyperbole:
"The man was as tall as a skyscraper"
False!
Which is not a figurative language that we have covered yet?
Simile, onomatopoeia, metaphor, personification, or hyperbole?
Onomatopoeia
Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah.
Simile
What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
Hyperbole
True or False
The following sentence is a Hyperbole:
"We already went over this lesson a million times already!"
True
List 4 types of figurative language
simile, metaphor, idiom, hyperbole, personification,