Figurative Language Review

a figure of speech in which two essentially dissimilar objects or concepts are expressly compared with one another through the use of “like” or “as.”

• similie

• metaphor

• imagery

• personification

What type of figurative language is used in the excerpt by Lemony Snicket below?

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

• hyperbole

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

What type of figurative language is used in the e.e. cummings poem below?

Spring is like a perhaps hand

(which comes carefully

out of Nowhere)arranging

a window,

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• oxymoron

a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things

• simile

• repetition

• alliteration

• metaphor

What type of figurative language is used in this line from The Princess Bride below?

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• oxymoron

What type of figurative language is used in the poem Dreams by Langston Hughes?

Hold fast to dreams

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams

For when dreams go

Life is a barren field

Frozen with snow.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• oxymoron

What type of figurative language is used in the song Stir Fry by Migos?

Life is Monopoly

go cop me some land and some property

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• oxymoron

What type of figurative language is used in the song Life is a Highway by Rascal Flatts?

Life is a highway

I wanna ride it all night long

If you’re going my way

I wanna drive it all night long

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• oxymoron

a figure of speech in which an idea or thing is given human attributes and/or feelings or is spoken of as if it were human

• simile

• alliteration

• idiom

• personification

What type of figurative language is used in the novel The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros?

But the house on Mango Street is not the way they told it at all. It’s small and red with tight steps in front and windows so small you’d think they were holding their breath.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• oxymoron