Figurative Language

Identify the metaphor

• My heart was a bucket full of joy after all the sweet compliments.
• My heart is a muscle.
• My heart is like a hand pump pushing blood all throughout my body.
• My heart is like a muscle.

Simile or Metaphor:
My father is a bear in the morning.

• simile
• metaphor

Simile or Metaphor:
Math is like a puzzle that never ends.

• simile
• metaphor

Which of the following is a hyperbole?

• She is as pretty as a flower.
• She is the prettiest woman in the entire universe.
• She is a beautiful flower.
• She is very pretty.

Hyperboles are phrases that

• compare two unlike things
• exaggeration used to emphasize an idea
• give person-like qualities to animals and things
• have a different meaning than the words.

What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated
• Giving human characteristics to non-human things
• A word that is a sound
• An exaggeration

The moon winked at me through the clouds as if to say I should venture forward.'
What object is being personified in the sentence?

• Clouds
• Winked
• Say
• Moon

What is being personified ?  "Oreo: Milk's favorite cookie!"

• Oreo
• Milk
• Cookie
• Mouth

Juan had a hard time hearing the teacher over his grumbling stomach.
*What is the onomatopoeia?

• grumbling
• teacher

A word that imitates a sound, for example BUZZ and POP:

• Onomatopoeia
• hyperbole