Figurative Language Review English

Figurative Language Review English

Simile

• Uses like or as to compare two things that are different in most ways, but are the same in one important way.

• EXAMPLE: "giant rocks with razor edges crouch like a sea monster with wide-open jaws.”

• EXAMPLE: They get along like oil and vinegar.

Metaphor

• Used to compare two things that are different in most ways, but are the same in one important way.

• Similar to simile BUT does not use like or as

• EXAMPLE: “...dabbled his big paw”

• EXAMPLE: Life is a roller coaster.

Hyperbole

• A statement that is exaggerated to make a point.

• EXAMPLE: I am so hungry I could eat a horse.

• EXAMPLE: He runs faster than a car.

Personification

• Giving human qualities (actions, feelings,

  thoughts) to nonhuman objects.

• EXAMPLE: “...sun streaks climbed up the wall and fell over...”

• EXAMPLE: The ocean danced in the moonlight.

Onomatopoeia

• Words that make the sound the represent when spoken.

• EXAMPLE: “The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocket-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa”

• EXAMPLE: The bee buzzed away.

Alliteration

• When the beginning sound in a word is repeated two or more times in a phrase or sentence.

• EXAMPLE: “...any brains to buck barley bags.”

• EXAMPLE: The wind whistled over the waves.

Multiple Choice

“A Thousand Miles,” Vanessa Carlton

'Cause you know I'd walk

A thousand miles

If I could

Just see you

Tonight

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

“Blank Space,” Taylor Swift

Look at that face, you look like my next mistake

Love's a game, wanna play

New money, suit and tie

I can read you like a magazine

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

“Firework,” Katy Perry

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag

Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?

Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin

Like a house of cards, one blow from caving in?

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

“Million Reasons,” Lady Gaga

You're giving me a million reasons to

let you go / You're giving me a

million reasons to quit the show /

You're givin' me a million reasons /

Give me a million reasons / Givin'

me a million reasons / About a

million reasons

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Multiple Choice

“Happier,” Marshmello & Bastille

When the morning comes / When

we see what we've become / In

the cold light of day, we're a flame

in the wind / Not the fire that we've

begun / Every argument, every

word we can't take back

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Multiple Choice

“Bad Blood,” Taylor Swift

It was my season for battle wounds

/ Battle scars, body bumped,

bruised / Stabbed in the back;

brimstone, fire jumping through

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• alliteration