Figurative Language Y5

Figurative Language

Onomatopoeia describes when a word sounds like the thing to which it refers. Each onomatopoeic word is like an imitation of the noise it describes.

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​Onomatopoeia

Personification is when an author gives human characteristics to an

object.

Examples of personification

• The leaves danced in the wind.

• Floorboards groaned with every step.

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Personification

Writing descriptions that use a variety of the five senses

creates imagery.

Examples of imagery:

• The salty air greeted them as they headed towards the beach.

• Clouds drifted silently above as I lay on the damp grass.

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Imagery

Alliteration is the repetition of a sound at the beginning of words in a phrase or sentence.

Examples of alliteration

• The wreckage rested on the ragged rocks.

• The treat melts in your mouth.

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​Alliteration

This compares things using like or as.

• Her tears flowed like a river running down her cheeks.

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​Simile

When objects are compared, but the words like or as are not used.

• Her tears were a flowing river down her cheeks.

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​Metaphor

This is a way of emphasizing what you are saying by describing it as far more extreme than it really is.

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​Hyperbole

Match

Match the following

• A comparison using like or as.

•  Comparing two things by using one kind of object. Stating one object is another object.

• The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables

• Big exaggeration, usually with humor

Simile

Metaphor

Alliteration

hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• hyperbole

Match

Match the following

• I’m as hungry as a pig.

• I am a bear.

• Suzy sells seashells by the seashore.

• I just ate an icecream cone the size of Texas!

Simile

Metaphor

Alleration

hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alleration

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

a great exaggeration to create emphasis or effect

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

when two things are compared using like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

a comparison in which one thing is said to be another

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

“Food?” Yuma inquired, popping out of his seat like a toaster strudel.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

A typical boy’s room is a disaster area.

• simile

• metaphor

• proverb/adage

Multiple Choice

He's as skinny as a toothpick!

• proverb/adage

• simile

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

I was home in a split second.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

It's as hot as the Bahamas in my bedroom.

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

Multiple Choice

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

• simile

• metaphor

• proverb/adage

• idiom

Multiple Choice

The smoke was cotton balls billowing from the chimney.

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

Multiple Choice

If Sandra thinks that I’m going to let her copy my math homework, she’s barking up the wrong tree.

• simile

• metaphor

• proverb/adage

• idiom

• hyperbole