Literary Devices and Figurative Language

What is a simile?

• A comparison of two unlike subjects using the words "like" or "as."
• Giving human characteristics to an animal, idea, or nonliving object.
• Words that imitate sounds.
• A comparison of two unlike subjects WITHOUT using the words "like" or "as."

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison of two unlike subjects using the words "like" or "as."
• A big exaggeration in order to make a point.
• A comparison of two unlike subjects WITHOUT using the words "like" or "as."
• Language that creates mental pictures by using sensory language. 

What is personification?

• The use of words to imitate sounds.
• A group of words whose meaning is different from the ordinary or literal meaning.
• Language that creates mental pictures by using sensory language. 
• Giving human characteristics to an animal, idea, or nonliving object.

What is imagery?

• The use of words to imitate sound.
• Giving human characteristics to an animal, idea, or nonliving object.
• Language that creates mental pictures by using sensory language. 
• A big exaggeration in order to make a point.

What is an onomatopoeia? 

• The use of words to imitate sound.
• A comparison of two unlike subjects using the words "like" or "as."
• Language that creates mental pictures by using sensory language. 
• A group of words whose meaning is different from the ordinary or literal meaning.

What is an idiom?

• A big exaggeration in order to make a point.
• The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of several words in the same phrase.
• A group of words whose meaning is different from the ordinary or literal meaning.
• A comparison of two unlike subjects using the words "like" or "as."

What is a hyperbole?

• The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of several words in the same phrase.
• A group of words whose meaning is different from the ordinary or literal meaning.
• The use of words to imitate sound.
• A big exaggeration in order to make a point.

What is alliteration?

• The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of several words in the same phrase.
• A big exaggeration in order to make a point.
• Giving human characteristics to an animal, idea, or nonliving object.
• The use of words to imitate sound.

What is the following an example of... "Make me your radio, turn me up when you feel low..."

• personification
• simile
• imagery
• metaphor

What is the following an example of... "You ain't nothin' but a hound dog..." 

• onomatopoeia
• personification
• metaphor
• simile