Figurative Language

What is a simile? 

• Comparing two unlike things without  using  like and as
• Comparing two things in a text
• Comparing two unlike things using  like and as
• None of the above

What is a hyperbole?

• An exaggerated statement not to be taken literally. 
• Telling the truth
• Comparing a rock to a island
• Break a leg

What is personification?

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

What is a metaphor?

• Comparing two things in a text
• Comparing two things using like and as
• An over exaggeration 
• Comparing two things without using like and as

What is alliteration?

• the repetition of vowel sounds inside of nearby words

• the repetition of consonant sounds inside of nearby words

• the repetition of the beginning sounds of nearby words

• the feeling a reader gets from a text

A word that imitates a sound, for example BUZZ and POP:

• Onomatopoeia
• Simile
• Metaphor

"The city was a jungle." is an example of what type of figurative language?

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

What type of figurative language is shown?
Pansy pranced playfully around the playground.

• hyperbole
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• oxymoron

What type of figurative language is shown?
The flower hugged the earth after being blown over by the storm.

• personification
• alliteration
• metaphor
• simile

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

• metaphor
• oxymoron
• simile
• hyperbole