Figurative Language Review #1

a phrase made up of two or more words that actually have opposite meanings

• oxymoron

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Complete the statement.

A simile compares two unlike things using the words like or ____.

Check all of the statements that are examples of hyperboles.

• We waited in line forever.

• My computer fell asleep after I walked away from it.

• The smell knocked everyone unconscious.

• My teacher gave me a ton of homework to finish.

Clumps of ice came crashing down on the cabin.

• metaphor

• idiom

• personification

• alliteration

a statement that means something completely different from what is written or spoken; difficult to understand by people who are not fluent in the language it is spoken/written.

• oxymoron

• alliteration

• idiom

• personification

A blanket of snow covered everything.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

-giving a human characteristics to a non-living object

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• idiom

• personification

CRASH, SPLATTER, RING, DRIP are all examples of ...

• alliteration

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• personification

comparing 2 different things; stating that one is the other

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• oxymoron

an extreme exaggeration

• simile

• hyperbole

• idiom

• metaphor