Figurative Language

What is the term for using a gross exaggeration?

• Personification
• Alliteration
• Hyperbole
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

What is a comparison of two things that have one quality in common?

• Hyperbole
• Onomatopoeia
• Simile
• Metaphor

The repetition of a sound of letter at the beginning of words.

• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Personification
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.K.3

A comparison of two things using like or as.

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Personification

Giving human qualities to an animal, object or idea.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Hyperbole

The use of words that imitate sounds.

• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Personification
• Idiom

A sentence that means something other than what is said.

• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Metaphor
• Idiom

This occurs when you expect one thing and get the opposite?

• Idiom
• Irony
• Hyperbole
• Simile