Figurative Language

When something is not human is given human like qualities, this is known as what?

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• personification

• symbolism

She doesn't like pizza, but says spaghetti is the best food in the entire world

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Jamie runs as fast the wind.

• cliché

• simile

• alliteration

• personification

His belly shook like a bowl full of jelly.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

What is a comparison made between things, which are essentially not alike?

• simile

• metaphor

• symbolism

• idiom

The eyes are a window to the soul; when she looked at him from across the room, she knew then that she was in love.

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Only the moon watched as the girl ran away from home in the middle of the night.

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

The librarian is a beast if you mess up her books.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

My teacher is so old, he edited the Bible for mistakes.

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

Our brains are like computers: capable of massive amounts of knowledge, but too often distracted by video cats.

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile