Figurative Language

What is the definition of Simile?

• Comparing two unlike things using like or as.

• He was as happy as a kid in a candy store.

• the repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of closely connected words.

• Comparing two things without using like or as.

What is an example sentence of Metaphor?

• He was a beast on the football field.

• the repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of closely connected words.

• Cathy cared for her cat.

• The sun smiled down at me.

What is the definition of Alliteration?

• The repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of closely connected words.

• The sun smiled down at me.

• Words that represent sounds.

• Giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects.

What is the definition of personification?

• The weekend took five hundred years to come.

  Onomatopoeia: Words that represent sounds

• The sun smiled down at me.

• Giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects.

What is the definition for hyporbole?

• Cathy cared for her cat.

• I have no Idea!

• The weekend took five hundred years to come.

• An extreme exaggeration.

Onomatopoeia: Words that represent sounds. What is an example word for this word?(multiple answer)

• Boom!

• Pow!

• Creaak!

• Splat!

Which word best describes this sentence?I had butterflies in my stomach.

• Hyporbole

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Idiom