Figurative Language

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

Which of the following in an example of onomatopoeia?

• Boom!
• No!
• Yes!
• Go!

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 

Which of the following is an example of personification?

• You are as a beautiful as a flower.
• The trees danced in the wind.
• I waited in line for 10 years!
• He is an encyclopedia of knowledge. 

What is this is an example of: The clock on the wall laughed at me as I tried to finish my test before class ended.

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole

What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated
• Giving human characteristics to non-human things
• A word that is a sound
• An exaggeration

Giving human qualities to non-living objects

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole

An obvious exaggeration to make a point or add excitement

• assonance
• repetition
• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia

The repetition of two or more of the same beginning consonant sound close together

• simile
• imagery
• consonance
• alliteration

"The air is like a butterfly"

• methaphor
• simile
• repetition
• onomatopoeia

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