Figurative Language

Which type of figurative language uses like or as to compare two unlike things?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

Giving human characteristics to nonhuman object or animals is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

The flowers danced in the wind is an example of:

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

You have a smile that lights up the room is an example of what type of figurative language

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Personification

This sentence is an example of what: "I feel as happy as a puppy rolling around in the grass."

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Simile

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet.

• Simile

• Metaphore

• Personification

• Alliteration

Alliteration is...

• an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally

• a comparison using like or as

• repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• Words that sound like their meaning

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison that does not use like, as, or than

• the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• A comparison that does use like, as, or than

• words that sound like their meaning

The restless children were hopping about like kernels in a corn popper.

What figure of speech is this an example of?

• Metaphore

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Personification

The book was a spaceship that transported him to strange new worlds.

What figure of speech is this?

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Metaphor