Figurative Language

"You have a smile that lights up the room" is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

Define hyperbole.

• An overused phrase

• Its raining cats and dogs

• An over (excessive) exaggeration

• A comparison of two unlike things, using like or as

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"Life is a journey" is an example of what?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"Vivi gulped down the mountain dew" is an example of what?

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Metaphor

My isn't Martha's macaroni mouthwatering, madame?

What figure of speech is this?

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Simile

An expression that cannot be understood by the meaning of its words is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Simile

The river spills over rocks and whispers to me-

Kawishiwee...Kawishiwee-

and rushes on to anywhere.

This is an example of:

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Simile

• Alliteration

Like a house on stilts,

a bull moose stands in the shallows.

This is an example of:

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Idiom

The little road says, Go,

The little house says, Stay

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

"The dolphins danced and played in the waves"

This is an example of which figure of speech?

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Metaphor