Figurative Language Phantom Tollbooth

Definition of Personification

• Animal or object that is given human characteristics

• Words or phrases that appeal to the reader’s senses.

• Perspective from which the story is told

• Writing that attempts to show life as it really is.

Definition of Imagery

• Comparing two things using like or as

• Comparison of two things directly

• An exaggeration

• Words or phrases that appeal to the reader’s senses.

Definition of Motif

• figure of speech

• represents more than literal self

• recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story

• author's message

Symbolism

• represents beyond it's literal sense

• description of a character

• repetitive ideas

• figure of speech

Definition of Alliteration

• word pronounced the same but differs in meaning

• Opposite Meaning

• play on words

• Repetitive sounds at the start of words multiple in a row

Choose the best term to represent the quote "savory steam spiraling slowly to the ceiling"

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

Choose the best term that is represented in the quote: “Ragamuffin, rigmarole, synonym bun” (89)

• Satire

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Pun

Choose the best term to represent the following quote "Easy as falling off a log”

• oxymoron

• simile

• Idiom

• satire

Choose the best term to represent the quote "extremely soiled bird who looked more like a dirty floor mop than anything else"

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Imagery

Choose the best term to represent the quote, "You must be the fat man...the thinnest one in the world"

• Onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Homophone