Figurative Language #2

What is personification?

• comparing two things using like or as

• giving human traits to objects or ideas

• a dramatic exaggeration

• a word that resembles the sound it represents

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 several words

• a contradictory phrase

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 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

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

What is a hyperbole?

• comparing two things using like or as

• an extreme exaggeration

• giving human traits to objects or ideas

• words or phrases that are contradictory

Match the definition with the term:

comparing two unlike things by using the words "like" or "as"

• idiom

• simile

• personification

• alliteration

An obvious exaggeration to make a point or add excitement

• assonance
• repetition
• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Giving human qualities to non-living objects

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A comparison of two seemingly unlike things

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D