Figurative Language Review

The repeating of beginning letter sounds in a group of words

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

• rhythm

an expression that means something different from what it says

• poetry

• figurative language

• idiom

• simile

A way to compare by saying that one thing is another thing

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

An obvious exaggeration that means something different from what it says

• hyperbole

• personification

• poetry

• figurative language

A word or phrase that does not have its normal every day, literal meaning

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

• figurative language

A comparison between two unrelated things using connecting words "like" or "as"

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

• rhythm

Giving human qualities or actions to something that is not human or living

• personification

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• idiom

The pattern of stresses within a line of writing

• poetry

• rhythm

• metaphor

• alliteration

In the simile, what objects are being compared:

The teacher said her classroom was like a zoo.

• teacher and zoo

• teacher and classroom

• said and zoo

• classroom and zoo

The literal meaning of this idiom is:

This test was a piece of cake.

• The test was hard

• The test was as sweet as cake

• The test was easy

• The test was about fractions of cake