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?
"What's fair for the goose is fair for the Gander" or "Flying off the handle" is an example of what literary device
Idiom
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.
Onomatopoeia
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in the beginning.
Alliteration
Identify the example: The slithering snake stalked the small children.
Alliteration
Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
Name the figurative language: The water was a glove that enveloped the swimmer’s body.
Metaphor.
Uses a pair of opposite or contradictory terms together for emphasis. For example, "Organized chaos", "Same difference", "Bittersweet"
What is Oxymoron?
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.
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".
Metaphor
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
A phrase that shows exaggeration that cannot possibly be true.
Hyperbole
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?
a very slight difference in meaning, sound, color, or someone's feelings that is not usually very obvious is called a
nuance
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition.
This type of figurative language can often be seen in comic books.
Onomatopoeia
Type of figurative language that refers to a child who returns home after failing college as a "prodical son"
Allusion
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.
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?