Figurative Language Definition Practice

What is a simile?

• figurative language that compares two things using the words "like" or "as"

• figurative language that compares two things by stating that one thing is something else

• gives human characteristics or feelings to things that are not human

• the use of words to create pictures, or images, in your mind, usually including the 5 senses

What is a metaphor?

• figurative language that compares two things using the words "like" or "as"

• figurative language that compares two things by stating that one thing is something else

• gives human characteristics or feelings to things that are not human

• the use of words to create pictures, or images, in your mind, usually including the 5 senses

What is imagery?

• figurative language that compares two things using the words "like" or "as"

• figurative language that compares two things by stating that one thing is something else

• gives human characteristics or feelings to things that are not human

• the use of words to create pictures, or images, in your mind, usually including the 5 senses

What is personification?

• figurative language that compares two things using the words "like" or "as"

• figurative language that compares two things by stating that one thing is something else

• gives human characteristics or feelings to things that are not human

• the use of words to create pictures, or images, in your mind, usually including the 5 senses

Which term means a comparison made using the words “like” or “as."

• Repitition

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

Which term means words in a sentence or phrase that begin with the same sound.

• Understatement

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Which term means words that sound like the objects or actions to which they refer.

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

Which term means a figure of speech in which objects are given human qualities

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

What is the definition of hyperbole?

• When a group of of words all start with the same sound.
• When words sound like what they mean.
• An extreme exaggeration 
• A comparison 

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which term means descriptive words that appeal to the senses

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• imagery