Similes, Metaphors, and Hyperboles

Simile , Metaphor, Personification

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Today's video will review or teach you about similes, metaphors, and personification. You must earn a passing grade on the quiz to receive credit. This will be the focus of our lesson for the week. Tomorrow we will start to identify these literary devices in music, famous speeches, and poetry.

Multiple Choice

The wind howled in the night.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

He was a car speeding through the streets is an example of...

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Alliteration

Multiple Choice

What type of figurative language is shown?
The runner ran like a cheetah in the race.

• metaphor
• oxymoron
• simile
• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

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. 

Multiple Choice

A comparison of two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as' is:

• alliteration
• simile
• onomatopoeia
• metaphor

Multiple Choice

Determine if the sentence contains personification or hyperbole.

The house was lonely and desolate while the family was away.

• personification

• hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

Multiple Choice

Determine if the sentence contains a simile or metaphor.

The crocodile’s teeth were daggers, ready to chomp down on a meal.

• simile

• metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Multiple Choice

Determine if the sentence contains a simile or metaphor.

His parents always told him that life was a rollercoaster and to jump on.

• simile

• metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

Multiple Choice

What is a simile?

• a comparison using "like" or "as"

• a comparison, saying something IS something else.

• giving human qualities to something that is not a human.

• An over exaggeration that truly isn't believable.

Multiple Choice

What is personification?

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• and over exaggeration that truly isn't believable

• A comparison saying that something IS something else.

Multiple Choice

The following sentence says that her hair IS actually ocean waves:

Her long hair is an ocean of waves.

What type of figurative language is shown?

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

The following sentences gives the flame human qualities:

The candle flame danced in the dark.

So, what type of the figurative language being used?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Multiple Choice

Is the following sentence as simile or metaphor?

Her hands were as cold as ice after the hayride.

• simile

• metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification