Figurative Language

A funny exaggeration is called a:

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Simile

When two things are compared using words like "LIKE" or "AS"

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Alliteration

• Simile

When two things are compared directly

The trees danced in the wind as they storm approached.

Hyperbole would be:

• I feel like a million dollars

• The car's tires screamed as it roared off

• The door pitter-pattered

• Two opposing forces

A sound to describe an action:

• Idiom

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Flashback

Idiom:

• a sound to describe an action

• A huge exaggeration

• A vivid flashback

• a saying to describe something that is happening

Which is an example of alliteration?

• The sky was as dark as the eye of a snake

• The waves crashed with a fury never felt before

• As the car leaped and took off, their heads were fasted against the restraint.

• I have heard how hedgehodgs hog the hedge.

Jumbo Shrimp is an example of:

A flashback is a:

• When you are anticipating what may happen in the future

• a vivid memory of an event from the past

• When you close your eyes for a second and enter a third dimension