Similes/Metaphors
What do similes and metaphors do?
What is they compare the quality of two or more unlike things together
What is personification?
What is giving human features to non-human things?
What is Onomatopoeia?
What are words that have sounds associated with them?
What are oxymorons?
What is words that have opposite meanings, but when brought together mean something new?
What are hyperboles?
What is over-exaggerations ?
How are similes and metaphors different?
What are similes that use like/as and metaphors don't
What two things in the sentence are being given human features: The sun hid from the children while the rain hammered down to the ground.
What is rain and sun?
Which of the following words is onomatopoeia? A.) rustling B.) like C.) ocean D.) quickly
What is rustling?
Which of the following are oxymorons? A.) pretty beautiful B.) incredibly amazing C.) terribly good D.) peaceful death
What is terribly good and peaceful death?
Which of the following is a hyperbole: A.) I ran as fast as I could to the store. B.) The girl asked her teacher for another day. C.) I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
What is I'm so hungry I could eat a horse?
What two things are being compared in this sentence? "Life is like a box of chocolates"
What is life and box of chocolates
What action is being given to a non-human thing: The ocean waved to the beach patrons.
What is ocean waving?
Fill in the blank with the correct onomatopoeia word: The __________ of the pots and pans woke up the entire neighborhood. A.) pitter patter B.) screeching C.) thumping D.) banging
What is banging?
What does the oxymoron "deafening silence" mean?
What is extremely quiet?
What is the sentence with hyperbole really trying to say: Mr. Johnson has been teaching here since the Stone Age.
What is Mr. Johnson has been teaching at the school for a really long time?
What does the metaphor "He drowned in a sorrow of grief" mean?
What is he was upset/sad
Create a sentence using personification about a car.
What is (student choice)?
Find the onomatopoeia in the sentence below: The ocean waves were splashing across the ocean as the swirling winds grew more powerful.
What is splashing and swirling?
Find the oxymorons in the sentence: What a seriously funny show the comedian performed tonight!
What is seriously funny?
What is this sentence trying to say: She can hear a pin drop a mile away.
What is it's really quiet.
In the song lyrics below, what are the three similes/metaphors you see: I feel so close to you right now It's a force field I wear my heart upon my sleeve like a big deal Your love falls down on me, surrounds me like a waterfall
What is force field, wear my heart upon sleeve like a big deal, and like a waterfall
In the poem below, what is the one example of personification? The computer pleaded to start But it was no use This old man's broken down heart Had completely run out of juice
What is the computer pleaded to start?
Create a sentence that accurately uses one of the following onomatopoeia words: A.) crackling B.) hissing C.) whispering
What is (student choice)?
Find the oxymorons in the sentence: It was a known secret that the Great Depression was a pretty terrible time in American history.
What is known secret, Great Depression, and pretty terrible?
List an example of a sentence that features a hyperbole.
What is (student choice)