Figurative Language

What is a simile?

• Comparing two unlike things
• Words that sound like sounds
• Comparing two things using like or as
• Exaggeration

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What is onomatopoeia?

• Words that sound like sounds
• Two or more words that begin with the same sound
• Exaggeration
• Giving a thing the qualities of a person

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What is a metaphor?

• Giving human qualities to inanimate objects
• Comparing two things using like or as
• Words that begin with the same sound
• Saying one thing is another thing

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What is hyperbole?

• Words that begin with the same sound
• Using an unbelievable exaggeration
• Words that sound like sounds
• Comparing two things that are not alike

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What is personification?

• Words that sound like sounds
• A big exaggeration
• Giving human like qualities to inanimate objects and animals
• Comparing two unlike things

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The restless children were hopping about like kernels in a corn popper.
What figure of speech is this an example of?

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Idiom

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"Life is a journey" is an example of what?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

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I nearly died laughing is an example of what?

• Metaphor

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which of the following is an example of onomatopoeia?

• She was white as a ghost

• Buzz

• Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Peppers

• Break a leg

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Talking animals are an example of what type of figurative language?

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Cliche

• Pun

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