Poems & Figurative Language

Comparing using like or as.

• Extended metaphor

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

What is a hyperbole?

• A statement that refers to something

• Comparing without using like or as

• Giving non-living things human-like qualities

• An extreme exaggeration

She was as cool as an ice cube.

• Simile

• Idiom

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

What is an allusion?

• Comparing without using like or as

• A statement that refers to something

• Giving human-like qualities to a non-living thing

• Saying that is meant to be taken figuratively

The clock was yelling at me.

• Extended metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Allusion

You are such a bear.

• Idiom

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

This class is taking forever.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Idiom

You are as smart as Albert Einstein. (select all that apply)

• Idiom

• Simile

• Allusion

• Metaphor

It's raining cats and dogs.

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Your ego is as big as the world.

(select all that apply)

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Allusion