Figurative Language

Figurative Language

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What is figurative language?

Figurative language is a way of using words or phrases to create a special meaning that is not literally true.
"I'm so hungry, I could eat a whole bear."

Match

Match the following

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Assonance

A figure of speech that repeats the same sound at the beginning of closely placed words

A comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'

A literary device where human qualities are attributed to non-human things

A figure of speech that compares two different things using 'like' or 'as'

Repeating the same vowel sound in words

• A figure of speech that repeats the same sound at the beginning of closely placed words

• A comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'

• A literary device where human qualities are attributed to non-human things

• A figure of speech that compares two different things using 'like' or 'as'

• Repeating the same vowel sound in words

Multiple Choice

A metaphor uses like or as to compare things.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Don at his hamburger like a vacuum cleaner

• Simile

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

The sun was a furnace

• Simile

• Metaphor

​The key word will be "is"
Ex. My mother is a rose
My mother is not literally a rose.
What do you think I meant?

Metaphor

​The key words will be "like" and "as"
Ex. My mother is like a rose.
What do you think I meant?

Simile

Multiple Choice

You are my rock.

• Metaphor

• Simile

Multiple Choice

John slept like a log.

• Metaphor

• Simile

Multiple Choice

Mary was as sweet as pie.

• Metaphor

• Simile

Multiple Choice

The cat's fur was a blanket of warmth.

• Metaphor

• Simile

Open Ended

Create your own simile or metaphor