Figurative Language Terms

Simile or Metaphor:
The city is a sea of sadness.

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• alliteration

What does this mean?
When my great uncles drives, he is as slow as a turtle. 

• very slow
• moves pretty quickly
• still beats everyone
• he's super fast

What's the meaning of this simile?
"My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."

• Her hair is red.
• She talks really loudly.
• She gets really angry. 
• She spits when she talks. 

Language in which the words mean exactly what they say is...

• figurative

• literal

A comparison of two unlike things using LIKE or AS.

• hyperbole

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

A comparison of two unlike things stating that one thing IS the other.

• idiom

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

On the way up north to the cabin,
the sunshine sits in my lap all morning. 
This is an example of: 

• personification
• metaphor 
• simile

Simile or Metaphor:
My sister is like an angel in my life.

• simile
• metaphor

Personification

• Sound or movement

• Repetition

• Means what it means but not literally

• Giving human emotion to a non-living thing.

Metaphor

• Comparison using like or as

• Comparison not using like or as

• Comparing two unlike things as the same

• Means what it means, but not literally.