Identifying Figurative Language

Identifying Figurative Language

Objectives

After this lesson, students will be able to:

Learn what clues can identify the figurative language elements in a piece of writing

Identify figurative language in text

Notes

You can use your notes during this game.

Figuative Language

Types

Multiple Choice

What is personification?

• comparing two things using like or as

• giving human traits to objects or ideas

• a dramatic exaggeration

• a word that resembles the sound it represents

Multiple Choice

What is a hyperbole?

• comparing two things using like or as

• an extreme exaggeration

• giving human traits to objects or ideas

• words or phrases that are the opposite of each other

Multiple Choice

What is oxymoron?

• using words that are the opposite of each other together

• comparing two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'

• giving human qualities to things that are not human

• words that imitate sound

Multiple Choice

What is understatement

• words that imitate sound

• repeating consonant sounds

• stating something with less importance/strength than expected

• extreme exaggeration

Multiple Choice

What is alliteration?

• giving human traits to objects or ideas

• a phrase that means something else than what it says

• repeating the same initial sound in several words

• a contradictory phrase

Multiple Choice

What is an onomatopoeia?

• a word that resembles the sound it makes

• comparing two things using "like" or "as"

• a dramatic exaggeration

• comparing two things by saying one is the other

Multiple Choice

What is a simile?

• a phrase that means something else than what it says

• comparing two things by saying one is the other

• comparing two things by using like or as

• a word that resembles the sound it represents

Multiple Choice

What is a metaphor?

• comparing two things using like or as

• repeating the same inital sound in neighboring words

• a phrase that means something else than what it says

• comparing two things by saying one is the other

Multiple Choice

She is a doll.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Multiple Choice

Susan suddenly stretched slowly.

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

Multiple Choice

Her blonde hair shined like the sun.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

Time to hit the sack!

• Simile

• Idiom

• Alliteration

• understatement

Multiple Choice

Meow!

• Hypebole

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Simie

Multiple Choice

The angry, hot sun beamed down on us, beating us with its rays.

• Personification

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

• Understatement

Multiple Choice

Winning a million dollar is an okay thing.

• oxymoron

• alliteration

• understatement

• simile

Multiple Choice

She’s as tiny as a mouse.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

A train is a dragon that roars through the dark.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Multiple Choice

I'm feeling under the weather.

• idiom

• hyperbole

• simile

• personification

Multiple Choice

The wind dances down the road.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Multiple Choice

Living dead

• oxymoron

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Multiple Choice

I'll be with you in one second.

• simile

• personification

• understatement

• onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

Jumbo shrimp

• simile

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Multiple Choice

The cute car is crazy colorful.

• simile

• alliteration

• personification

• repetition

Multiple Choice

"Buzz - says the great buzzing bee."

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia