Figurative Language Terms

​Open your PINK language packet to page two. Use this activity to take notes in your packet. Then, answer the questions after the notes.

​Figurative Language

Alliteration

• Definition- words with the same consonant sounds occurring close together. (Similar to a tongue twister.)

• Example- The Wicked Witch of the West was watching me!

Hyperbole

• Definition: an exaggeration designed to emphasize

• Example: Your suitcase weighs a ton!

Idiom

• Definition- An idiom is a phrase or expression that is not meant to be taken literally, but is used to exaggerate a point.

• Example- It's raining cats and dogs.

Onomatopoeia

• Definition- a word that imitates or resembles the natural sound that it describes.

• Examples- The cow mooed at the farmer.

Oxymoron

• Definition- figures of speech that contain words that are completely opposite to one another- often two-word phrases

• Examples- jumbo shrimp, deafening silence

Metaphor

• Definition- describes something as something else. It is a comparison of two unlike things, but does not use the words "like" or "as". You are stating that one thing is the other thing.

• Example- Her hair is silk.

Personification

• Definition- Giving human qualities, feelings, actions, or characteristics to non-human objects

• Example- The lonely lighthouse warned sailors of rocks along the shore.

Simile

• Definition: A comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as".

• Example: He was as strong as an ox.

Multiple Choice

I played Fortnite until my fingers fell off!

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Multiple Choice

He slept like a log.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Multiple Choice

It's raining cats and dogs.

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Idiom

• Simile

Multiple Choice

Silly sally sold sea shells by the sea shore.

• Methaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

• Alliteration

Multiple Choice

My class is a circus!

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

My keys grew legs and ran away!

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Idiom

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

Jumbo shrimp, deafening silence.

• Oxymoron

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Idiom

Multiple Choice

Chirp, meow, boom, zap, pow!

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor