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100

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

What is a simile?

100

Name the figurative language: The stars danced in the night.

What is personification?

100

Identify the figurative language "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

What is alliteration?

100

Name the figurative language: "He let the cat out of the bag."

Idiom

100

The feelings, emotions, or ideas associated with a word.

connotation

200

The repetition of the same consonant sounds in the beginning. 

Alliteration 

200

Identify the example: The slithering snake stalked the small children. 

Alliteration 

200

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

Personification 

200

Name the figurative language: The water was a glove that enveloped the swimmer’s body.

Metaphor.

200

The literal dictionary definition of a word.

Denotation

300

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

What is personification?

300

Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah. 

Simile

300

Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"

What is a simile?

300

Name the figurative language: "The soft wind blew through the trees with the sweet smell of spring flowers." 

Imagery

300

Describing something with lots of detail, using the 5 senses.

Imagery

400

This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.

What is a metaphor?

400

Name the figurative language: Bless your heart.

What is an idiom?

400

Identify the figurative language: The bee buzzed around my head. BUZZZ! 

What is onomatopoeia?

400

Name the figurative language: Johnny is feeling under the weather?

Idiom.

400

A word that imitates the sound that it describes.

Onomatopoeia

500

What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."

Hyperbole

500

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

What is a metaphor?

500

Identify the figurative language: "Costs an arm and a leg."

What an idiom?

500

Name the figurative language: The air was as cold as ice.

Simile

500

When one thing is used to represent something else.

Symbol/Symbolism