Figurative Language

A word that imitates a sound, for example BUZZ and POP:

• Metaphor
• Sound
• Onomotopoeia
• Rhythm 

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Give an example of personification

• I am so hungry I could eat a horse

• The sun is like a light bulb

• The Sun smiled at us

• I want to be awesome

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The snow danced around in the wind.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• breezy

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What is personification?

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

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The race car zoomed past the finish line.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Onomatopoeia
• Personification

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An onomatopoeia is also known as what?

• An action word
• A descriptive word
• A sound word
• A statement

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The band played as loud as a sonic boom.

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• eardrums

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When two unlike things are being compared using like or as, it is called a

• simile
• hyperbole
• idiom
• metaphor

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Identify the Simile below...

• The tree danced in the wind.
• She is as tall as a tree!
• That cat is the devil.
• My backpack weighs a thousand tons!

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My tennis shoes stuck out their tongues at my stinky feet after running the mile.

• simile
• metaphor
• personfication
• smelly

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