Definitions
This is a comparison that uses like or as.
What is a simile?
"Her eyes are a sparkling diamond."
What is a metaphor?
"My bookbag weighs 3 tons!"
This hyperbole means this...
This is a very common purpose of alliteration.
What is "to create a relevant sound?"
"Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
-Shakespeare: The Tempest
The italicized words are this type of literary device.
What is onomatopoeia?
This is a type of figurative language where non-human things have human attributes or do human actions.
What is personification?
"Sally sells seashells by the seashore."
What is alliteration?
"Amelia has a heart of gold. She gives to charity every single week without fail." This metaphor means this...
What is "Amelia is extremely kind?"
This is the purpose of a hyperbole.
To overly exaggerate and emphasize a feeling.
"I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry."
-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
This figurative language is present in the passage.
What is hyperbole?
This is when the first consonant sound in a word is repeated in a sentence.
What is alliteration?
"Emily jumped the gun and quit her job because she thought she was going to be fired for her mistake."
What is an idiom?
"Julie is blind as a bat."
This simile means this...
What is "Julie has a hard time seeing?"
This is the purpose of imagery.
What is to "paint a picture" in the reader's head?
"It wasn't safe to come out of the shelter until noon the next day. When the Americans and their guards did come out, the sky was black with smoke. The sun was an angry little pinhead. Dresden was like the moon now, nothing but minerals. The stones were hot. Everybody else in the neighborhood was dead."
-Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
These TWO figurative language terms exist in this passage.
What are simile and metaphor?
This literary device is when a story uses a reference to another piece of media, text, or historical event.
What is allusion?
"The crackling fire warmed our hands as we heard the rain tap on the metal roof above."
What is imagery?
"I passed the exam by the skin of my teeth; I got the minimum required score." This idiom means this...
What is "just barely."
This is the purpose of a metaphor.
What is "to make a comparison between two things to better understand the characteristics of something?"
"Had there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so picturesque in her attire and mien, and with the infant at her bosom, an object to remind him of the image of Divine Maternity."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
This reference to mother Mary in the Bible is an example of this literary term...
What is an allusion?
This is a literary device where the unexpected happens in a story. There are 3 types: verbal, situational, and dramatic.
What is irony?
"The fire station burst into flames after someone left the oven on."
What is irony?
"I’ll make sure you have everything you need—equipment, resources, the whole nine yards."
This idiom means this...
What is "Everything, or the full extent of something?"
This is the purpose of an oxymoron.
What is to reveal a paradox, or express complex feelings?
"Pretty little bottles of perfume
Stood at attention on the dresser.
'Which one of us will she choose today?'
And they each took turns being the guesser."
-The Perfume Bottles by Kelly Roper
This poem features this figurative language term...
What is personification?