Figurative Language Practice

What is alliteration?

• Exaggeration

• Words that sound like their meaning

• Giving human traits to nonhuman things

• repeating sounds

What is personification?

• Giving human traits to nonhuman things

• Repeating sounds

• Comparing two things using like or as

• Exaggeration

What is a simile?

• Repeating sounds

• Exaggeration

• Comparing using "like" or "as"

• Giving human traits to non human things.

What is an onomatopoeia?

• Words that sound like their meaning

• Exaggeration

• Comparing without using "like" or "as"

• Comparing using "like" or "as"

What is a metaphor?

• Comparing two things using "like" or "as"

• Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"

• Exaggeration

• Words that sound like their meaning

What is a hyperbole?

• Comparing two things using "like" or "as"

• An exaggeration

• A word that sounds like its meaning

• Repeating sounds

Ruby rushed to reach the rack of raisins and raspberries.

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• idiom

Words like "pop," "pow," and "smash" are examples of ______.

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• metaphor

The phrases "as tall as a skyscraper" or "stuck like glue" are examples of ________________.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

"The leaves on the trees waved hello as I walked by" is an example of _______.

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• personification