Definitions
Characterization and Imagery
Symbolism
Metaphors and Similes
Personification and Hyperbole
100

This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."

What is a simile?

100

These are the two types of characterization.

What is direct and indirect characterization?

100

This color can represent love, passion, anger, and blood.

What is red?

100

What does this metaphor mean?

"He has a heart of gold"

He is very kind, he is generous, helps other people.

100

What is being personified in this sentence?

The candle flame danced in the dark.

What is the candle flame?

200

The way we learn about a character and how we create and describe them based on the author’s ideas.


What is characterization?
200

Which sense does this appeal to: 

Hot apple cider and cinnamon wafted through the air

What is smell?

200

This animal represents bravery, strength, and royalty. 

What is a lion? 

200

Name the figurative language: "The boy was a sky scraper, towering over all the other students".

What is a metaphor?

200

Why is this sentence a hyperbole?

I died of embarrassment.


This person is not literally dead, they just feel very embarassed.
300

This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.

What is a metaphor?

300

What do the letters in STEAL stand for when we talk about indirect characterization

What is speech, thoughts, effect on others, actions, and looks?

300

Draw or write a symbol that represents 'peace'

What is a dove, the color white, an olive branch

300

Name the figurative language: The air was as cold as ice.

What is a simile?

300

Write a sentence example of a hyperbole.

Example Sentence

400

This type of figurative language creates pictures in text that rely on the reader using their senses.

What is imagery?

400

Write an example sentence where visual imagery is used (using the sense of sight).

Example Sentence:

400

Name 3 symbols that represent "love"

What is a heart, rose, swans, doves, cupid, the color red, etc.

400

What is this song an example of?

What is a metaphor? "Baby, you're a firework"

400

Write me an example of a sentence that uses personification.

Example Sentence

500

An event, object, person or animal to which an extraordinary meaning or significance has been attached.


What is symbolism?

500

Is this an example of direct or indirect characterization?

"Perhaps it had something to do with living in a dark cupboard, but Harry had always been small and skinny for his age . . . Harry had a thin face, knobbly knees, black hair, and bright green eyes. He wore round glasses held together with a lot of Scotch tape because of all the times Dudley had punched him on the nose. The only thing Harry liked about his own appearance was a very thin scar on his forehead that was shaped like a bolt of lightning."

What is direct characterization?

500
Give an example of a symbol in the Edgar Allan Poe story "A Tell-Tale Heart" and explain the significance

What is the eye, heart, or floorboards?

500

2 parts: What figurative language is this? And what is being compared?

What is simile? Comparing their beauty, shining like diamonds in the sky

500

Find the TWO sentences that show hyperbole

After a few interviews, Marian got a job at Dairy Queen.  She served up mountains of ice cream.  She served enough sodas to fill an ocean.  Finally, payday came.

After a few interviews, Marian got a job at Dairy Queen.  She served up mountains of ice cream.  She served enough sodas to fill an ocean.  Finally, payday came.