Figurative Language

What is a hyperbole?

• giving an object human characteristics

• an extreme exaggeration

• a football playoff game

What is a palindrome?

• a plane that flies real fast

• using your 5 senses to describe something

• words that read the same in either direction

A pun is...

• a rhyming joke

• a play on words; supposed to be funny

• a type of poetry

Which one is an example of a simile?

• He is a strong ox.

• She is as happy as a kid in a candy store.

• Colby smiled as she walked down the hall.

Which of the following is a metaphor?

• I am over the moon.

• She is like the wind.

• He is a raging bull.

Words that read the same in either direction are called

• anagrams

• redundancy

• palindromes

Which of the following is an example of an onomatopoeia?

• Sweet

• Kaboom

• Crumpled

Repetition is

• repeating words for emphasis in a story or poem

• words that describe a noun or pronoun

• your teacher telling you the same thing 3 times

What is an oxymoron?

• an overstatement

• words that mean the same

• phrase with 2 parts that have opposite meanings

Which of the following is a redundancy?

• past history

• happy day

• clean room