Devices 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: "The children pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds, intermixed, peering out for a look at the hidden sun."
Simile
Name the figurative language: The boy cackled like a hyena
Simile
A word that descirbes a noun is called
Adjective
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: It's raining cats and dogs!
Idiom
What figurative language means: the same sounds are repeated at the end of words, so they sound similar.
Rhyme.
The term when you want to find a word that means the same thing but is different
Synonym
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 a ghost, passing through the school unnoticed
Metaphor
Give an example of a hyperbole
Varies
Name the figurative language: "The boy was a sky scraper, towering over all the other students".
Metaphor
What genre is it when the story is true?
Nonfiction
"That quiz was a slam dunk" is an example of what?
Allusion
What figurative language in this sentence: Mary ate berries while reading scary stories with her dog Harry.
Rhyme
Identify the figurative language: "So after that, dimly, dimly, she sensed it, she was different and they knew her difference and kept away."
What is repetition?
I won't go to school today! I won't, I won't! I'd rather sit in bed.
Repetition
What is an adverb?
A word that describes an action and ends in -ly.
What type of figurative language is this? "The ice cream melted on my tongue, and the sweet flavor spread happiness through my body."
Imagery/rhythm
Name the figurative language: The wind howled through the barren trees, scratching against the windowpane
Personification
The moon glowed in the night sky, washing the town in a bright white light. The stars sparkled in the distance and the owls hooted in the silence.
Imagery
What figurative language means when an object or thing stands for something other than itself?
Symbol
What does the sun in "All Summer in a Day" symbolize?
Hope