Figurative Language Part 2

Figurative Language Part 2

Multiple Choice

Which is the BEST definition of figurative language?

• Language that says exactly what it means

• Language that can have an imaginative interpretation

Review - Types of Figurative Language

Simile

Metaphor

Personification

Onomatopoeia

Hyperbole

Allusion

Alliteration

Imagery

Multiple Choice

The fire hungrily devoured everything in its path.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Allusion

Multiple Choice

The eerie silence was shattered by her scream. The underlined word is _____________.

• tactile imagery

• gustatory imagery,

• auditory imagery

• olfactory imagery

Multiple Choice

It is the imagery use to address our sense of vision. In that way, the reader can visualize what is happening in the story in her or his own mind.

• visual imagery

• olfactory imagery

• gustatory imagery

• auditory imagery

Multiple Choice

How would allusion be defined?

• a reference to a famous person, place, or event

• words that involve one of the five senses

• two lines working as a unit

• a form or wordplay with similar sounding sounds

Multiple Choice

The sun is a flower, that blooms for just one hour.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

Multiple Choice

Bang, pop, gurgle, slap

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Multiple Choice

An exaggerated statement is a...

• Alliteration

• Onomatopeia

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Multiple Choice

Alliteration is...

• an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally

• a comparison using like or as

• repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• Words that sound like their meaning

Types of Figurative Language

Repetition

Irony

Symbols/Symbolism

Flashback

Foreshadowing

Point of View

Multiple Choice

Irony usually involves something that is 

• false
• silly
• unexpected
• unimportant

Multiple Choice

This symbolizes what?

• peace

• grief

• death

• positivity

Multiple Choice

A look back to an earlier event...

• Flashback
• Foreshadowing
• theme
• rising action

Multiple Choice

Define foreshadowing.

• A flashback of what happened previously
• A hint at something that will happen later
• Giving human-like characteristics to non-living things
• Comparing two unlike things using like or as

Multiple Choice

You ran as fast as you could up the hill. Although you were hot and exhausted, you knew if you kept your pace, you would win the race.

• 1st person POV

• 2nd person POV

• 3rd person POV

Multiple Choice

If a story is told in third-person point of view, the narrator

• is NOT a character in the story

• is a character in the story

Multiple Choice

In First Person point of view the narrator...

• tells their own story.

• tells a story about someone else.