Figurative Language

What does PERSONIFICATION mean?

• Giving human characteristics to inanimate things.

• A way of describing a persons personality.

• A person who needs help.

• Letting people get away with anything.

An exaggeration used to make or prove a point is...

• a cliche

• a simile

• an idiom

• a hyperbole

What is an idiom?

• A way to handle a person who does not know anything.

• A word or phrase that means something other than what is actually being said

• When a dog used its brain power.

• A long story about fighting, princesses,and dragons.

Alliteration is....

• when there are two vowels that are back to back in a word. (Ex. Feet)

• when the vowels all sound the same.

• when two or more words begin with the same initial sound.

• when the initial sound in a word is silent.

A phrase or expression that is overused is a(n)...

• metaphor

• cliche

• idiom

• simile

What is Onomatopoeia?

• The subject of a sentence is you.

• Ideas that never leave someone's mind.

• Shoes that tie automatically.

• Words that make sounds.

A comparison of unlike things using "like' or "as"

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• personification

A metaphor is...

• a problem a character faces in a book.

• a comparison of unlike that says something is another thing.

• the crinkling of a water bottle

• the Italian word for the mets