Figurative Language
The way you compare two different things without the use of 'like' or 'as'.
What is metaphor?
What is noun?
______ is at the door?
Who (He is).
To be stuck or built tightly inside something else.
1. robbed
2. stranded
3. embedded
4. fighter
Embedded
The way you compare two different things with the words 'like' or 'as'.
What is simile?
A word that describes, modifies, or gives more information about a noun (a person, place, animal, or thing) or a pronoun.
What is adjective?
The man ___________ I met yesterday is a doctor.
Whom (I met him).
The parts of a river, lake, or ocean where the water is not very deep.
1. Deep Water
2. Shallows
3. Waves
4. Rolling
Shallows
The action of giving a non-living object human emotions, characteristics, or traits.
What is personification?
A word that shows an action, an occurrence, or a state of being in a sentence
What is verb?
The scientist ________ discovered the cure received an award.
Who (She discovered it).
A low, hollow, dent, or dip in a surface.
1. depression
2. moody
3. round
4. runner
Depression
The word (usually a noun) that a pronoun refers to.
What is antecedent?
A word that describes or gives more information about a verb (an action word), an adjective (a describing word), or another adverb.
What is adverb?
__________ made these cookies?
Who (She made them).
A very small, thin stream or trickling flow of water.
1. water
2. land
3. wind
4. rivulet
Rivulet
The phrase where the words together have a hidden, figurative meaning that is different from what the words actually say literally.
What is idiom?
A connecting word (e.g., in, on, under, etc.) that shows the relationship between a noun (or pronoun) and other words in a sentence, usually telling you where, when, or how something happens.
What is preposition?
My mentor, with _________ I worked for years, gave great advice.
Whom (I worked with him).
A feeling of intense irritation or annoyance.
1. happiness
2. exasperation
3. asset
4. amphibious
Exasperation