Figurative Language Review

What is alliteration?

• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• a phrase that means something else than what it says
• repeating the same initial sound in neighboring words
• words that are contradictory when used together

What is an onomatopoeia?

• a word that resembles the sound it makes
• comparing two things using like or as
• a dramatic exaggeration
• comparing two things by saying one is the other

What is an oxymoron?

• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• a phrase that means something else than what it says
• repeating the same initial sound in neighboring words
• words that are contradictory when used together

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

What is a hyperbole?

• comparing two things using like or as
• an extreme exaggeration
• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• words that are contradictory when used together

What is an idiom?

• a phrase that means something else than what it says

• comparing two things using like or as

• an extreme exageration

• giving human traits to objects or ideas

What is a simile?

• a phrase that means something else than what it says
• comparing two things by saying one is the other
• comparing two things by using like or as
• a word that resembles the sound it represents

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is personification?

• comparing two things using like or as
• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• a dramatic exaggeration
• a word that resemebles the sound it represents

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What is a metaphor?

• comparing two things using like or as
• repeating the same inital sound in neighboring words
• a phrase that means something else than what it says
• comparing two things by saying one is the other

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Match the definition with the term:
comparing two unlike things by using the words like or as

• idiom
• simile
• personification
• alliteration

Match the definition with the term:
a short phrase combining two terms that are normally contradictory

• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• oxymoron
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A