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Define Me
Define Me, Again
What's the Literal Meaning
What's the Figurative Meaning
For Example...
100
Compares two objects using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
A figure of speech in which words imitate their own sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
100
Kick the bucket
What is to actually kick a bucket with one's feet?
100
Kick the bucket.
What is to die or pass away?
100
Boom! Bang! Crash! Wham!
What is onomatopoeia?
200
Compares two different objects by saying one object is the other object.
What is a metaphor?
200
A figure of speech in which animals, objects or ideas are given human-like qualities
What is personfication?
200
Heart.
What is an organ that pumps blood throughout the body?
200
Heart.
What is love, bravery, courage (any of these or anything similar are acceptable.)
200
The football player was a monster.
What is metaphor?
300
Occurs when words are used that sound alike, especially on the last syllable.
What is a rhyme?
300
Language that does not mean exactly what it says and is considered "imaginary."
What is figurative language?
300
A snake in the grass.
What is a snake, a reptile, crawling or laying in the grass?
300
A snake in the grass.
What is a cunning, sneaky, manipulative person?
300
The ballerina lept like a feather across the stage.
What is simile?
400
Occurs when a series of words are used that have the same beginning consonant sound.
What is alliteration?
400
The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
What is symbolism?
400
It's raining cats and dogs.
What is cats and dogs are falling from the sky like rain?
400
It's raining cats and dogs.
What is it is raining very hard?
400
In the lines: "Let the rain pitter-patter, but it really doesn't matter if the skies are gray. As long as I can be with you, it's a lovely day" the words"Pitter-patter and matter" and "gray" and "day" are examples of this figure of speech...
What is rhyme?
500
An extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
500
A figure of speech in which the meaning cannot be determined from its word constiuents.
What is an idiom?
500
I put my foot in my mouth.
What is to try to speak, but instead one's foot goes into one's mouth?
500
I put my foot in my mouth.
What is to say something you shouldn't have said?
500
Angrily booming thunder or a smiling moon are examples of this figurative language...
What is personification?