Figurative Language (Definitions and Examples)

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• A comparison without using "like" or "as"

• A figure of speech in which the word imitates it's meaning.

• An extreme exaggeration

What is the definition of hyperbole?

• When a group of of words all start with the same sound.

• When words sound like what they mean.

• An extreme exaggeration

• A comparison

What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• A word that is a sound

• An exaggeration

What is the definition of imagery?

• a figure of speech comparing two things using like or as

• the repetition of words with the same beginning sound

• language that suggests how someone or something looks, sounds, feels, smells, or tastes; helps create a mental picture in your mind as you read

• a figure of speech in which objects are given human qualities

What is a stanza?

• a line in a poem

• to convey your feelings

• a grouping of lines in a poem

• a poem

What is the definition of rhyme?

• When two words are the same

• When two words have the same ending sound

• When two words are completely different

• When two words like each other

What is the definition of repetition?

• a grouping of lines

• words with the same ending sounds

• words that have the same beginning sound

• using the same word or phrase over and over

What is alliteration?

• giving human traits to objects or ideas

• a phrase that means something else than what it says

• repeating the same beginning sound in neighboring words

• a contradictory phrase

What is a simile?

• comparing two things without using like and as

• comparing two things in a text

• comparing two things using like and as

• none of the above

What is an onomatopoeia?

• An exaggerated statement

• A type of bug

• A comparison of two things using like or as

• The use of a word associated with a sound.