Figurative Language: Review -Skills

'You are like a ray of sunshine!' is an example of:

• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• simile
• metaphor

This term means to use a strong exaggeration:

• personification
• idiom
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole

This term means to use a strong exaggeration:

• personification
• idiom
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole

'Her eyes were sparkling diamonds' is an example of:

• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole
• personification

What is a simile?

• A comparison of two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'. 
• Giving inhuman things human like qualities
• An extreme exaggeration
• Comparison of two unlike things using ‘like’ or ‘as’
  

These shoes take 50 million years to put on.

• imagery
• simile
• personification
• hyperbole

What type of figurative language is shown?
The runner ran like a cheetah in the race.

• metaphor
• oxymoron
• simile
• hyperbole

What type of figurative language is shown?
Her long hair is an ocean of waves.

• personification
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole
• metaphor

What type of figurative language is shown?
She was so sad that all the tears she cried filled up a lake.

• hyperbole
• oxymoron
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia

A comparison between 2 unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• personification