LESSON & PRACTICE: Figurative Language

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What is this an example of? My dad snores like a chainsaw.

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• personification

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What is this an example of? The snow is a white blanket.

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• personification

• hyperbole

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What is this an example of? Lightning danced across the sky.

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• personification

• hyperbole

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What is this an example of? I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• personification

• hyperbole

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What is this an example of? You know, you're being a real Scrooge right now.

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• personification

• hyperbole

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An extreme exaggeration

• simile

• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• hyperbole

• metaphor

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A comparison of two unlike things, without using 'like' or 'as' and saying one thing is another thing

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia
• metaphor

• simile
• personification

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a comparison of two unlike things, using the words 'like' or 'as'

• simile

• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• metaphor
• personification

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when the same sounds are used at the beginning of several words in a sentence - 'all the sounds are the same'

• simile

• onomatopoeia
• alliteration

• metaphor
• personification

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a word that represents a sound - the word sounds like the sound it makes

• simile

• alliteration
• onomatopoeia

• metaphor
• personification

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when a non-human object is given human qualities or emotions

• simile

• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• personification

• metaphor

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I am as hungry as a bear! 

• hyperbole
• alliteration
• simile
• metaphor

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The ball jumped out of the receiver's hands. 

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• personification

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The sad student sat silently in the room. 

• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• idiom
• personification

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"The city was a jungle" is an example of what?

• alliteration
• simile
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia

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The wind whistled through the trees during the storm. 

• personification
• simile
• metaphor
• idiom

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I wouldn't worry wacky worries unless it was something to really worry about.

• alliteration
• repetition
• idiom
• hyperbole

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The clock on the wall laughed at me as I tried to finish my test before class ended.

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole

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Which of the following is an example of personification?

• You are as a beautiful as a flower.
• The trees danced in the wind.
• I waited in line for 10 years!
• He is an encyclopedia of knowledge. 

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This school is an asylum.

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• onomatopoeia

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Her head was spinning from all of the new information.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• personifcation

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You're a couch potato.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

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She’s as tiny as a mouse.

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Oxymoron

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Happy Harry handles handsprings horribly.

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

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Freddy French fired five fabulous free throws.

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron