Towler Figurative Language

What is an advanced sign or hint of what is to come in the future? Author's use this literary device in movies, books and stories.

• simile

• flashback

• foreshadow

• metaphor

Literal vs. Figurative Which one is Literal?

• Completely true or accurate.

• Expressing one thing in terms normally used for another.

• metamorphical

Sitting on top of the world and time flies are:

• Metaphors

• Similes

• Idioms

• personification

The repetition of the same beginning consonant sound in a line or verse?

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Alliteration

Words that make a sound are called a:

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Image Words

They say money talks but, mine just waves goodbye. This is an example of:

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

______________ is a word or phrase that is used to make a comparison between two people, things, animals or places.

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

__________________ is giving human traits to non-living things.

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

____________________ is a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as".

• Hyperpole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

__________________ is an extreme exaggeration that is not meant to be taken literally.

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Hyperpole