Figurative Language

Phrases that mean something different than what they say. This type of figurative language makes sense figuratively, but not literally.

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

• Alliteration

This type of figurative language compares two things without using the words like or as.

• Hyperbole

• Metafive

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

This type of figurative language uses words that start with the same sound in a sentence or phrase.

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Personification

Non-human things are given human traits in this type of figurative language.

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Metaphor

If the author is describing something in an extremely exaggerated way, they are using which type of figurative language?

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

When an author compares two things using the words like or as, which type of figurative language are they using?

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Idiom

This type of figurative language, often found in graphic novels and comics, is created when a word sounds like the noise that it makes.

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

• Alliteration

Identify the type of figurative language being used:

"The dog knocked over the vase with a CRASH"!

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Identify the type of figurative language being used:

"It's raining cats and dogs".

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Identify the type of figurative language being used:

"He is as fast as a rabbit".

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Alliteration