Figurative Language
Examples 1
Examples 2
Figurative Language 2
Tone/Mood
100

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

What is a simile?

100

Name the figurative language: The stars danced in the night.

What is personification?

100

Identify the figurative language: She said, "I'll be the Juliet to your Romeo"

Allusion

100

Define imagery.

language that uses touch, taste, sound, smell and sight to "paint" a picture for the reader

100

This is the term for the writer's attitude toward the subject or audience.

What is tone?

200

An indirect reference to a character, event, person, place, story, etc. 

Allusion 

200

Name the figurative language: When Rebecca saw her high math quiz score, she was so happy that she did the Moonwalk.

Allusion/ hyperbole

200

Identify the figurative language: The sun smiled down on us. 

Personification 

200

True or false: We can enhance our writing by adding figurative language.

True

200

This is the term for the atmosphere or feeling created for the reader.

What is mood?

300

This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.

What is personification?

300

Name the figurative language: He was as fast as a cheetah. 

Simile

300

Identify the figurative language: "The rabbit was as slow as a sloth"

What is a simile?

300

List 5 types of figurative language 

simile, metaphor, idiom, hyperbole, personification, repetition, alliteration, allusion, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, pun, euphemism, irony, paradox, anaphora, imagery, apostrophe, synecdoche

300

If a writer’s tone is humorous, they likely want the reader to feel this.

What is amused/entertained/happy?

400

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

What is a metaphor?

400

Name the figurative language: She was dying of laughter.

Hyperbole.

400

Identify the figurative language: I could sleep forever!

Hyperbole

400

Why do we use figurative language in our writing?

to help the reader better understand what we are trying to describe and make it more entertaining

400

When a story’s mood is described as eerie, it likely makes the reader feel this way.

What is uneasy/scared/nervous?  

500

What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."

Hyperbole

500

Name the figurative language: He was a hurricane when he entered the room.

What is a metaphor?

500

Identify the figurative language: raining cats and dogs

What an idiom?

500

What is the difference between LITERAL language and FIGURATIVE language. 


Literal language means exactly what is said while figurative language has different meanings than the words that are used. 

500

This is the tone when an author writes with sadness about loss or misfortune.

What is sorrowful/grieving/depressing?