Figurative Language

What type figurative language is the phrase below?

"You're a couch potato."

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• simile

Allen said the Phrase,"The world is my oyster." Sally thinks it is and idiom. Bob thinks it is a metaphor.

Who is correct?

• Sally

• Bob

What Figurative Language is the Phrase below?

"My cousin has a Heart of stone."

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

Jim said "It was raining Cats and Dogs."

Which type of Figurative Language is this Phrase?

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

What type of Figurative Language is the phrase below?

"Our love is like a rose that fades too quickly."

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

My Life flashed Before my eyes.

What type of figurative language is the phrase above?

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• None of the above

• Personification

• Metaphor

"The thought hit me like a ton of bricks."

What type of figurative language is the phrase above?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

What is a Simile?

• A figure of speech in which two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usually in a phrase introduced by like or as.

• A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect.

• None of the Above

Boom,Crack,Zam, went the Fireworks.

Which type of figurative language is this phrase?

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Personification

• None of the above

"She sells seashells by the sea shore." is an example of...

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Personification