Figurative Language

What is a metaphor?

• A word that makes the sound it represents

• A comparison of two unrelated things

• An exaggerated statement

"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room."

What is being personified?

• The walls

• The scream

• The room

• The orange

What figurative language is the sentence below?
She is as pretty as a flower. 

• Simile 
• Metaphor 
• Alliteration 

_____a figure of speech in which two a things are compared, NOT using like or as 

• Simile 
• Metaphor 
• Personification 

A figure of speech in which human characteristics are attributed to animals, plants, objects and ideas. 
Example: The moon followed me through the night. 

• Poetry 
• Simile 
• Personification 

Mrs. Woodrome whistles while she works well. 
This is figure of speech is _____ 

• Rhyme 
• Alphabet 
• Alliteration 

I am so hungry I could eat a cow. 
This figure of speech is _____.

• Hyperbole 
• Simile 
• Rhyme 

Naming a thing or an action by imitating the sound associated with it..
Example: Crash! 

• Alliteration 
• Onomatopoeia
• Metaphor 

What do you think the meaning of this metaphor,
"She is a walking dictionary" is? 

• Was is tired 
• She knows a lot of words
• She was walks around the street 

When I was at Six Flags, I waited in line for years.
What figurative speech is this? 

• Metaphor 
• Personification 
• Hyperbole