Figurative Language

What is alliteration?

• giving human traits to objects or ideas

• repeating the same initial sound in neighboring words

• a phrase that means something else than what it says

• words that are contradictory when used together

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 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 an oxymoron?

• giving human traits to objects or ideas

• repeating the same initial sound in neighboring words

• a phrase that means something else than what it says

• words that are contradictory when used together

What is personification?

• comparing two things using like or as

• a dramatic exaggeration

• a word that resembles the sound it represents

• giving human traits to objects or ideas

What is an idiom?

• a phrase that means something else than what it says

• an extreme exaggeration

• comparing two things using like or as

• giving human traits to objects or ideas

What is a hyperbole?

• comparing two things using like or as

• giving human traits to objects or ideas

• an extreme exaggeration

• words that are contradictory when used together

What is a metaphor?

• comparing two things using like or as

• a phrase that means something else than what it says

• repeating the same inital sound in neighboring words

• comparing two things by saying one is the other

My father was the sun and the moon to me. What type of figurative language is used in this sentence?

• A) metaphor

• B) hyperbole

• C) personification

• D) simile

The rain seemed like an old friend who had finally found us. What type of figurative language is used in this sentence?

• A) personification

• B) onomatopoeia

• C) simile

• D) metaphor