Definitions 1
This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: The stars danced in the night.
What is personification?
Identify the figurative language "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is alliteration?
Name the figurative language used: This term for "the crown" often refers to the authority and power of the monarchy in literature.
What is metonymy?
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
The use of a word to describe or imitate a natural sound made by an object or action.
What is onomatopoeia?
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in the beginning.
What is consonance?
Identify the example: The slithering snake stalked the small children.
What is alliteration?
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language: The water was a glove that enveloped the swimmer’s body.
What is metaphor?
Name the figurative language: The tornado tiptoed across the plains.
What is Pathetic Fallacy?
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah.
What is a simile>
Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"
What is a simile?
Name the figurative language: "The boy was a sky scraper, towering over all the other students".
What is a metaphor?
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
A phrase that shows exaggeration that cannot possibly be true.
What is hyperbole?
This is a literary device that involves the deliberate use of multiple conjunctions (such as "and," "or," "but," and "nor") in close succession, often more than is necessary.
What is Polysyndeton?
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
This literary device is illustrated by the phrase "less is more," which seems contradictory but reveals a deeper truth.
What is paradox?
Name the figurative language: The air was as cold as ice.
What is simile?
This figure of speech is used when a speaker directly addresses an absent person, abstract idea, or inanimate object, as in "O Death, where is thy sting?"
What is apostrophe?
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Mentioning that something is a "Herculean task" refers to a person or character in history. What figurative language is this?
What is allusion?
Identify the figurative language: The bee buzzed around my head.
What is onomatopoeia?
What figure of speech is used when someone says "all hands on deck," using a part to represent the whole crew?
What is Synecdoche?
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
This type of figurative language can often be seen in comic books.
What is onomatopoeia?