Figurative Langauge

Poll

How easily would you be able to recognize figurative language in a text?

• Easy Peasy

• I would be able to look carefully and find it.

• I wouldn't be able to identify it in text.

• I don't know what figurative language is.

Multiple Choice

What is figurative language?

• a repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words.

• a word or phrase that does not have its normal every day, literal meaning.

• A comparison of two unlike things that uses like or as.

• a set of expression interpreting two or more words.

Time is money. ​

Her heart is gold.

​You are my sunshine.

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Examples

Figurative Language that compares two things by using one kind of object to suggest the likeness between them.

What is it?​

​Metaphor

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Multiple Choice

What do you call a figurative language phrase that compares two things by using an object to suggest the likeness between them?

• Idiom

• Simile

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

A simile is....

• a word or phrased used to describe something.

• a repetition of words in a sentence.

• a comparison of two unlike things introduced by "like" or "as"