Figurative Language Review

What is a simile?

• A direct comparison
• Comparison using "like" or "as"
• Giving human qualities to nonhuman things
• An extreme exaggeration

What is a hyperbole?

• A direct comparison
• Comparison using "like" or "as"
• Giving human qualities to nonhuman things
• An extreme exaggeration

What is a metaphor?

• A direct comparison
• Comparison using "like" or "as"
• Giving human qualities to nonhuman things
• An extreme exaggeration

What is a personification?

• A direct comparison
• Comparison using "like" or "as"
• Giving human qualities to nonhuman things
• An extreme exaggeration

Which is an example of a simile?

• Happy as a pig in mud.
• He's so messy! What a pig!
• It was the fattest big in the whole world.
• The pig "oinked" when he ate.

Which is an example of hyperbole?

• The class lasted forever!
• The trees danced in the wind.
• He's a beast on the court.
• He laughs like a hyena.

Which is an example of personification?

• He was as happy as a clam.
• The essay they had to write for homework was thousands of pages.
• "That test was a bear!"
• My dog said hello to me when I came home from school.

Which is an example of a metaphor?

• She dances like a graceful swan.
• She is a hot mess!
• The zipper bit my finger when I closed my jacket.
• The wind whispered in the night.

Choose the example of alliteration:

• The bird's song was as beautiful as the tune of an orchestra.

• "Meow, meow," whined the cat as he waited for his dinner.

• The snake slithered through the grass looking for food.

• "That dog is the ugliest dog on the planet!" she cried.

Choose the example of onomatopoeia:

• The bird's song was as beautiful as the tune of an orchestra.

• "Meow, meow," whined the cat as he waited for his dinner.

• The snake slithered through the grass looking for food.

• "That dog is the ugliest dog on the planet!" she cried.