This figurative language technique is a comparison using like or as.
What is simile?
100
A word that is a sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
100
A comparison made WITHOUT using like or as.
What is metaphor?
100
Representing a thing or idea as a human or a person.
What is personification?
100
The use of words near each other that begin with the same sound.
What is alliteration?
200
An extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
200
An expression that cannot be understood from the meaning of its separate words but has a separate meaning all its own.
What is idiom?
200
A humorous way to use a word or phrase so that more than one meaning is suggested.
What is pun?
200
Something that is overly familiar or commonplace.
What is cliché?
200
This is a serious joke.
What is oxymoron?
300
Boom! Clank! Ding!
What is onomatopoeia?
300
The sun is like an orange.
What is simile?
300
The stars danced in the night sky.
What is personification?
300
The student was drowning in homework.
What is metaphor?
300
She sells seashells by the seashore.
What is alliteration?
400
Using a combination of words that are opposite in meaning.
What is oxymoron?
400
A cop in a big Hollywood movie has big muscles and is bald.
What is cliché?
400
This is the worst class in the history of all English classes ever!
What is hyperbole?
400
I bet the butcher the other day that he couldn’t reach the meat that was on the top shelf. He refused to take the bet, saying that the steaks were too high.