Figurative Language Review

Figurative language review!

What are metaphors, similes, personification, alliteration, hyperbole, and repetition?

Imagery

Definition: highly descriptive language that stimulates the reader's senses.
NOT figurative language, but often contains figurative language.

Example:

• “The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.

Simile

Definition: A way of comparing two things using like or as.

Example:

• The stars sparkled above us like precious jewels.

Metaphor

Definition: A way of comparing two things WITHOUT using like or as.

Example:

• The eyes are the window to the soul.

Personification

Definition: Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.

Example:

• The wind whistled a tune outside the
  window all throughout the day.

Hyperbole

Definition: Exaggeration for effect.
Hyper = excessive.

Example:

• On our fishing trip, I caught
  the world's biggest fish.

Alliteration

Definition: Use of the same sound or letter at the beginning of words.

Example:

• The rushing river twister through
  the rugged rocks.

Repetition

​Definition: repeating words or phrases to emphasize an idea.

Example:

• It's okay not to be okay.

• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.

Multiple Choice

What type of figurative language is this line?: I could grow very still like an old stone on a hill.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

What type of figurative language do we see here: How sweet the sobbing violin.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

What kind of figurative language?: It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets!

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• symbol

Multiple Choice

"You are the thunder, and I am the lightning," is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Cliche

• Personification

Multiple Choice

What type of author's craft can be found in this sentence:

“It rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the place.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Repetition

Multiple Choice

Identify the figurative language in this song:

A winters day In a deep and dark December; I am alone, Gazing from my window to the streets below On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Multiple Choice

Identify the figurative language:
A shooting star once said to me
That nothing’s really what it seems
‘You must make up your own mind’
Well I’ll try this time

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Multiple Choice

"Fight Song" by Rachel Platten

Like a small boat

On the ocean

Sending big waves

Into motion...

This is my fight song

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

Multiple Choice

"Stereo Hearts" by Gym Class Heroes

My heart's a stereo

It beats for you, so listen close,

Hear my thoughts in every note

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

Multiple Choice

"Sound of Silence" by Disturbed

Hello Darkness, my old friend

I've come to talk with you again

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

Multiple Choice

"Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell

They paved paradise, put up a parking lot

With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

Multiple Choice

"And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while."

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor