Figurative Language

A simile is a comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”

• True

• False

A metaphor is a comparison of two unlike things, says it straight out.

• True

• False

Giving human characteristics to non human things is personification

• True

• False

An extreme exaggeration is called hyperbole.

• True

• False

Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or tongue twister is called alliteration.

• True

• False

Words that sound like the sound they make, comic book words are called onomatopoeia.

• True

• False

The rain falls like the sun, rising upon the mountains.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Simile

The fly buzzed past us.

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Personification

The sunflowers nodded their yellow heads.

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

Charming children chat in the corner

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Idiom