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100

What is a simile?

Comparison using like or as

100

What is personification?

Giving a nonhuman object humanlike qualities

100

What is onomatopoeia? 

Sound words
100

Identify the figure of speech:

A big, black bug bit a big black bear. 

Alliteration

100

My father is a tall giraffe.

metaphor

200

What is a metaphor?

Comparison without using like or as

200

What is a hyperbole?

An over exaggeration

200

What is alliteration?

Repeating the beginning sounds, or first letter

200

Identify the figure of speech:
Life is a roller coaster.

metaphor

200

The tick-tock of the clock is so irritating!

onomatopoeia

300

Is this a simile or metaphor?

My mother is a busy bee.

Simile


300

Is this personification or hyperbole?

It's so hot outside that I'm melting.

Hyperbole

300

Is this alliteration or onomatopoeia?

My brother's baseball bat brings bad luck.

alliteration

300

Identify the figure of speech:
Please stop acting like a child.

simile

300

Little Lisa was laughing loudly with Liam. 

Alliteration.

400

Is this a simile or metaphor?

Eyes blue like the ocean.

Simile

400

Is this personification or hyperbole?

The trees danced in the wind.

Personification
400

Is this alliteration or onomatopoeia?

There were two cars racing towards eachother and BAM! a huge crash happened. 

Onomatopoeia
400

Identify the figure of speech:
I felt like the food kept calling me.

Personification

400

Her smile was a mile wide!

Hyperbole

500

Label a simile and metaphor in this excerpt.

We just moved to this new town, and I hate it. Everyone here stares at me like owls, waiting for me to mess up. This place is a wasteland, all I see is trash and people like trash. I need to leave. 

Simile: "stares at me like owls" or "people like trash"

Metaphor: "Place is a wasteland"

500

 Come up with a new example of personification.

The clouds ---

500

Come up with a new alliteration example. 

Anything works here

500

Identify the figure of speech:

he bird’s chirp filled the empty night air.

Onomatopoeia

500

Name all the figures of speech present in this paragraph: 

I wandered worthlessly to the water. The stream was racing effortlessly. The splish splash of the water reached my ears now. 

alliteration, hyperbole, onomatopoeia