Figurative Language
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Figurative Language
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Figurative Language C
Figurative Language
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Figurative Language E

100

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

What is a simile?

100

Name the figurative language: "The car's engine groaned when I turned the key!"

What is personification?

100

The type of figurative language used in the following: "Ms. Dybas makes the greatest pizza in all of Chicago!"

What is hyperbole?

100

This type of figurative language can make you laugh when told at a party!

What is a PUN? 

100

True or false: We can enhance our writing by adding figurative language.

True

200

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

What is a metaphor?

200

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

Personification 

200

This type of figurative language is when words mimic sounds! 

What is Onomatopoeia

200

This type of figurative language can be found in the following quote: "To my dog, our neighborhood park is the Garden of Eden"

What is an allusion?

200

This type of figurative language is a form of expression particular to a specific person or group of people, but it is NOT LITERAL.

What is an IDIOM
300

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

Simile

300

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

Hyperbole

300

BOOM! CUCKOO! DING! & BANG! What is the use of these words called in figurative language?

ONOMATOPOEIA

300

Why did the lion spit out the clown? Because he tasted funny.  This type of figurative speech is?

What is a PUN? 

300

List 5 types of figurative language 

simile, metaphor, idiom, hyperbole, personification, repetition, alliteration, allusion, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, pun, euphemism, irony, paradox, anaphora, imagery, apostrophe, synecdoche

400

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

What is a simile?

400

Name the figurative language: She was dying of laughter.

Hyperbole.

400

Identify the figurative language: I could sleep forever!

Hyperbole

400

What type of figurative language is where the same first letter sound repeats itself? 

What is ALLITERATION?

400

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

500

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

What is a metaphor?

500

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

What is personification?

500

Identify the figurative language: out of the blue

What an idiom?

500

This type of figurative language is used in the following quote: "Don't cry over spilled milk!"

What is an idiom?

500

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.