Figurative Language

Means extreme exaggeration

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Compares 2 unlike things using like or as

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

Using human qualities or characteristics to describe non human things

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Compares 2 unlike things saying one thing is another thing

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

What type of figurative language is this: The leaves danced in the wind.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

What type of figurative language is this: This box is so heavy it weights a ton!

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

What does this metaphor mean? Tim has a car, but it's a dinosaur.

• Tim loves the T-rex.

• Tim will go to the Jurassic Park.

• Tim's car is really old.

• Tim's car is really small.

What type of figurative language is this? The pencil danced across the paper.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Life is like a box of chocolates

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole