JSS 3 Class Activity on Figures of Speech

The camel is the ship of the desert.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

We use (figure of speech) to emphasize the importance or overstate something.

• Onomatopoeia

• irony

• Hyperbole

• Metonymy

"The bees buzzed around the garden" is an example of what figure of speech?

• Metaphor

• Synecdoche

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

"My mother is like a star in the night sky"

• Personification

• Metonymy

• Metaphor

• Simile

"He is as brave as the lion" is an example of metaphor.

• True

• False

Hyperbole is composed of a pair of contradictory words.

• True

• False

"And then one day the boy came back and the tree shook with joy" 

• Idiom
• Hyperbole
• Personificatioin
• Metaphor

We waited for centuries for the latest game to be released.

• Personficiation
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole

I'm so hungry, I could eat a whole elephant.

• Hyperbole
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Idiom

Sara heard the last piece of pie calling her name.

• Hyperbole
• Idiom
• Personification
• Metaphor