Proverbs and Figurative Language

What is Alliteration?

• A figure of speech that is used to make a comparison between two things that aren't alike but do have something in common.

• Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

• Words whose sound suggests its meaning.

What is Onomatopoeia?

• An extravagant exaggeration.

• A. comparison using 'like' or 'as'.

• Words whose sound suggests its meaning.

What is a Metaphor?

• Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

• A phrase that has a meaning different from the dictionary definition.

• A figure of speech that is used to make a comparison between two things that aren’t alike, but do have something in common.

What is a simile?

• A comparison using 'like' or 'as'.

• A phrase that has a meaning different from the dictionary definition.

• An extravagant exaggeration.

What is a hyperbole?

• Something you find in a math book.

• An extravagant exaggeration.

• A phrase that can be compared with something else.

What is personification?

• A repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

• Giving human qualities of things and ideas.

• Stating two things that are similar.

What is an Idiom?

• A phrase that has a meaning different from the dictionary definition.

• Giving human qualities to things and ideas.

• An extravagant exaggeration.

Choose the correct the figure of speech.

Hit the road.

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Choose the figure of speech.

She was so scared that she turned as white as a ghost.

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

Choose the correct figure of speech.

Time was a thief to me this year.

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom