Figurative Language

Figurative Language

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Figurative vs. Literal Language

Can you tell the difference?

Multiple Choice

You say exactly what you mean. You make no comparison, and you do not exaggerate or understate the situation.

• Figurative Language

• Literal Language

Multiple Choice

You DON’T say exactly what you mean. You DO compare, exaggerate, and understate the situation. You use similes, metaphors, hyperboles, and other figures of speech to make your writing more exciting.

• Figurative Language

• Literal Language

Multiple Choice

Grant always turns in his homework.

• Figurative Language

• Literal Language

Multiple Choice

When she sings her voice is like velvet.

• Figurative Language

• Literal Language

Multiple Choice

’m so hungry I could eat a horse.

• Figurative Language

• Literal Language

Multiple Choice

I’ve told you a million times to clean up your room

• Figurative Language

• Literal Language

Multiple Choice

I quickly ran home in the rain.

• Figurative Language

• Literal Language

Simile

• comparing two unlike things using the words “like” or  “as”.

• Her eyes were like stars.

• Susan is as gentle as a kitten.

Metaphor

• comparing two unlike things without using like or as. 

• Calling one thing, another.  Saying one thing is something else.

• Her eyes were sparkling emeralds.

• My love is a red, red rose.

  
  

Hyperbole

• an exaggeration so dramatic, no one could believe it;

• overstate to emphasize a point.

• This bag weighs a ton!

• I’ve told you a million times to clean up your room!

Alliteration

• the repeating of the same letter or sound, especially consonant sounds….including tongue twisters.

• Miss Warren was worried when Wendy was waiting.

• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

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Personification

• giving human characteristics to things that are not human.

• The angry flood waters slapped the house.

• The sun smiled down on us.

Onomatopoeia

• the use of a word to describe or imitate a natural sound made by an object or action. 

• Words that sound like what they mean.

• buzz, zoom, bang

Allusion

• reference or mention of a famous person, book, movie, character

• Chocolate is his Kryptonite.

• Things became hard in her life, but she just kept swimming.

Multiple Choice

The street cars are like frosted cakes covered with snowflakes.

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• allusion

Multiple Choice

The west wind dances down the road.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

Multiple Choice

A train is a dragon that roars through the dark.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• allusion

Multiple Choice

Her blonde hair shined like the sun.

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

Multiple Choice

Susan suddenly stretched slowly.

• simile

• allusion

• alliteration

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

You’re acting like such a Scrooge!

• allusion

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

He runs faster than the wind.

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• personification

Multiple Choice

The bridge collapsed creating a tremendous boom.

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile