Simile or Metaphor?
Hyperbole or Personification?
Alliteration or Onomatopoeia?
Mixed bag
DANGER ZONE
100

This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."

Simile

100

Name the figurative language: "The car's engine groaned when I turned the key!"

What is personification?

100

Give an example of an alliteration in a sentence about 'pizza'! 

What could be Pepperoni pizza is perfect at parties.

100

Identify the figurative language:

“The dawn came quickly now, a cold gray light that crept across the land like a liquid.”

  • Source: Lois Lowry, The Giver

What is simile

100

True or false: We can enhance our writing by adding figurative language.

True

200

This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.

 Metaphor

200

Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us. 

Personification 

200

This type of figurative language is when words mimic sounds! 

Onomatopoeia

200

What type of figurative language is used in the following quote:

“If you were to swallow a single drop of it, your throat would burn for a thousand years.”

  • C.S. Lewis The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

What is hyperbole

200
Identify the figurative language and explain the meaning of the following figurative language:

He is as cool as a cucumber.

What is a simile saying he is relaxed or not stressed. 

300

Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah. 

Simile

300

What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."

Hyperbole

300

BOOM! CUCKOO! DING! & BANG! What is the use of these words called in figurative language?

ONOMATOPOEIA

300

The type and meaning of this figurative language. 

"Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.”

  • Source: Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

Metaphor meaning that you start to forget things over time.

300

List 5 types of figurative language 

simile, metaphor, idiom, hyperbole, personification, repetition, alliteration, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, pun, irony, paradox, imagery

400

Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"

Simile?

400

Name the figurative language: She was dying of laughter.

Hyperbole.

400

Identify the figurative language that repeats the same beginning sound in nearby words.

What is alliteration

400

Name the figurative language and what does it mean for the following:

“The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed.”

Source: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

What is personification.

It describes a long sunset.

400

Why do we use figurative language in our writing?

to help the reader better understand what we are trying to describe and make it more entertaining

500

Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.

Metaphor 

500

This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.

What is personification?

500

A sentence of onomatopoeia about nature that is also alliteration.

What is the bee buzzed?

500

Name the figurative language and explain:

“All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances.”

  • William Shakespeare As You Like It
What is a metaphor. It means we are all putting on acts and that like characters in a play, we come in and out of situations. 
500

What is the difference between LITERAL language and FIGURATIVE language. 


Literal language means exactly what is said while figurative language has different meanings than the words that are used.