Figurative Language

What is a hyperbole?

• Most of the words start with the same beginning sound

• Comparing two unlike things using like or as

• An extreme exaggeration

• giving human qualities to a nonhuman thing

Which is an example of a simile?

• The snow was a white blanket.

• My mom made me muffins for breakfast.

• It took a million years to get through the grocery store.

• The baby was wrinkly like an old man.

The bacon was sizzling and crackling in the pan is an example of ...

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• idiom

• metaphor

Figurative language that means something different than what it says is...

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• idiom

All of these are examples of idioms except for...

• The test was a piece of cake.

• He was like a kid in a candy store.

• My mom told me to hit the hay.

• They are two peas in a pod.

An example of a metaphor is...

• His smile was as bright as the sun.

• She picked a bean longer than her whole body.

• The snow was a warm blanket for the Earth.

• The bleachers shook with excitement over the race.

The type of figurative language that gives human characteristics to non-human things is...

• personification

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• metaphor

An alliteration is...

• an extreme exaggeration

• all the words have the same letter at the beginning

• comparing to unlike things

• most of the words in a sentence having the same beginning sound

Which is an example of alliteration?

• Susie wanted to catch flounder.

• Carson kicked cans by the car.

• Bonnie jumped over the moon.

• Dylan wrote a new book.

An example of personification is...

• The bird screamed good morning to the leaves.

• The bleachers shook from the ball being hit.

• It was like finding a needle in a haystack.

• The door creaked open.