Figurative Language

Idiom means

• sound words

• a word or phrase that has a different meaning than what is being said.

• giving animals or objects human characteristics.

• extreme exaggeration

Alliteration means

• uses like or as to compare unlike things

• word or phrase that has a different meaning than what is being said.

• repetition of same sounds.

• sound words

A metaphor is -

• comparing two unlike things without using like or as

• extreme exaggeration

• sound words

• giving animals or objects human characteristics

A simile is

• comparing two unlike things without using like or as

• extreme exaggeration

• sound words

• comparing two things using like or as

A hyperbole means -

• sound words

• extreme exaggeration

• a word or phrase that has a different meaning than what is being said

• repetition of same sounds

Onomatopoeia means -

• same sound repeating

• extreme exaggeration

• sound words

• giving animals or objects human characteristics.

Personification means -

• giving animals or objects human characteristics

• extreme exaggeration

• same sound repeating

• comparing two things using like or as

Read the example below:

“I’m being shut down like a machine.”

The sentence is an example of -

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

Read the example below.

“Ants at a picnic, that’s what you are.”

What type of figurative language is being used?

• personification

• alliteration

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

Read the example below.

"I would not work with him in a million years."

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• personification

• onomatopoeia