Language Week 1

Language in which the words mean exactly what they say is?

• Figurative

• Literal

A comparison of two different things using like or as.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects, ideas, or animals.

• Metaphor

• Onomatopeia

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Repetition of beginning consonant sounds in words that are close together.

• Onomatopeia

• Oxymoron

• Pun

• Alliteration

A word that imitates the sound it represents

• Onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron

• Simile

• Alliteration

The giant's steps were thunder as he ran towards Jack. This is an example of?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperpole

• Sentence

Explain the meaning of the following personified sentence. "The china danced on the shelves during the earthquake."

Personify the following:

The puppy (barked) when I left for school.

His eyes are shining stars in the middle of the night.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Sentence

Yolanda Yvonne Yarger yodelled up the yonder yesterday.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personfication

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole