Figurative Language Review

Why do people use figurative language?

• To make their writing interesting and visual, or to emphasis an idea and make a point.
• To be grammatically correct.
• To structure their writing into paragraphs.
• Because Beyonce uses it in her songs. 

What is a hyperbole?

• An extreme exaggeration
• A little exaggeration
• Similar sounds
• Compares two things using like or as

A simile.....

• tells what a person likes
• compares two unlike things using the words like or as
• compares two similar things 
• tells what a person is doing

What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated
• Giving human characteristics to non-human things
• A word that is a sound
• An exaggeration

The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words is which type of figurative language?

• Assonance
• Personification
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration

A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as is which type of figurative language?

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Idiom

A reference to a well-known work of literature, art, music, etc. is what type of figurative language?

• Personification
• Idiom
• Allusion
• Assonance

An expression that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words. They are overused expressions.

• Idiom
• mood
• allusion
• tone

Literal language is different from figurative language because

• it is unclear.

• it can have more than one meaning.

• it means exactly what is said or written.

• it gives directions.

"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