Figurative Language Review

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What is Hyperbole?

Back

Using exaggeration to prove a point.

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Define Metaphor.

Back

Comparing 2 objects using a form of 'IS'.

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What is a Simile?

Back

Comparing 2 objects using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is a Pun?

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A play on words.

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What is Personification?

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Giving human-like qualities to non-human objects.

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What is Onomatopoeia?

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A word that sounds like its meaning.

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Identify the figurative language technique: 'The wind whispered through the trees.'

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Personification.

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Identify the figurative language technique: 'The classroom was a zoo.'

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Metaphor.

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Identify the figurative language technique: 'He runs like the wind.'

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Simile.

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Identify the figurative language technique: 'I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.'

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Hyperbole.