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: "He let the cat out of the bag."
Idiom
What figurative language means: the same sounds are repeated at the end of words, so they sound similar.
Rhyme.
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
Her hair was warm honey in the bright sunlight.
Metaphor.
Name the type of figurative language that has this definition: a phrase or word is repeated throughout the text.
Repetition
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
What figurative language creates a beat for the reader?
Rhythm
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
What figurative language in this sentence: She took a look at the book.
Rhyme
Identify the figurative language: The bee buzzed around my head.
What is onomatopoeia?
Peter Piper picked some peppers!
Alliteration.
Name the type of figurative language that creates a picture in the reader's mind.
Imagery
What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
Hyperbole
Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the figurative language: "Costs an arm and a leg."
What an idiom?
Name the figurative language: The air was as cold as ice.
Simile
How does figurative language make writing better for the reader?
Figurative language can appeal to the senses, makes writing more entertaining (funnier).