Figurative Language

What is a simile?

• Human-like characteristics to something non-human

• Comparison using like or as

• Comparison NOT using like or as

• A word or phrase that is reused

Figurative language includes which of the following?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

What is a hyperbole?

• Exaggeration

• Comparison using like or as

• Repeating same letter sound

• Word or phrase reused for emphasis

What is alliteration?

• Opposite terms used together

• Comparison using like or as

• Comparison NOT using like or as

• Repeating of same letter or sound

What is a metaphor?

• Human-like characteristics to something non-human

• Repeating same letter or sound

• Comparison NOT using like or as

• A word or phrase reused

What is personification?

• Human-like characteristics to something non-human

• Comparison

• Same letter sound

• Exaggeration

What is an onomatopoeia?

• Two opposite words used together

• Comparison

• Exaggeration

• Word that imitates a sound

What is repetition?

• Word or phrase reused for emphasis

• Comparison

• Exaggeration

• Word used to imitate a sound

What is an oxymoron?

• Comparison

• Opposite words used together

• Exaggeration

• Comparison using like or as

"Her eyes were like stars" is a...

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification