Figurative Language

A comparison that uses like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• Onomotopeia

A comparison that does NOT use the words like or as.

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

When the same beginning sound is repetitive or repeats, it is an example of ___________________.

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

When non human things are given human characteristics, it is an example of _____________________.

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

an extreme exaggeration is a/an _______________.

• hyperbole

• idiom

• simile

• metaphor

The phrase, "Braves Boy Bo," is an example of a/an ________________.

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

The baseball traveled a thousand mile per hour as it crossed homeplate.

This statment is an example of a/an _______________.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• allusion

While taking class notes, time crawled slowly.

This statement is an example of a/an _______________

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

When a word is spelled like it sounds, it is called ________________.

• Onomotopeia

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• simile

The statement, "The trees danced in the wind," is an example of __________________.

• personification

• allusion

• repetition

• simile