Simile or Metaphor?
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
Simile
Name the figurative language: "The car's engine groaned when I turned the key!"
What is personification?
Give an example of an HYPERBOLE in a sentence about 'pizza'!
Ms. Dybas makes the greatest pizza in all of Chicago!
If I'm "on top of the world", how do I feel?
Feeling very happy, delighted
True or false: We can enhance our writing by adding figurative language.
True
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
Metaphor
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
This type of figurative language is when words mimic sounds!
Onomatopoeia
What does the idiom "The class is all ears" mean?
The class is waiting attentively to hear about something.
This type of figurative language is a form of expression particular to a specific person or group of people, but it is NOT LITERAL.
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
BOOM! CUCKOO! DING! & BANG! What is the use of these words called in figurative language?
ONOMATOPOEIA
What does the idiom "this question is a piece of cake" mean?
It is super easy.
List 5 types of figurative language
simile, metaphor, idiom, hyperbole, personification, repetition, alliteration, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, pun, irony, paradox, imagery
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
Simile?
Name the figurative language: She was dying of laughter.
Hyperbole.
Identify the figurative language: I could sleep forever!
Hyperbole
If Ms. Sanches says: "The class always goes bananas"
What does she mean?
To act crazy, become extremely angry or excited, or to act without self-control.
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
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
Metaphor
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Give an example of HYPERBOLE!
-She never stops talking
-I could sleep forever
-These shoes are killing me
- I've told you a million times
The idiom: "Today, my friend gave me the cold shoulder." What was she doing?
To intentionally ignore or show no interest in someone or something
What is the difference between LITERAL language and FIGURATIVE language.
Literal language means exactly what is said while figurative language has different meanings than the words that are used.