Figurative Language

What is a comparison between 2 unlike things using "like" or "as"?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Allusion

What uses exaggeration for emphasis or effect?

• Irony

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

What uses repeated consonant letters or sounds

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Imagery

What makes a comparison between 2 unlike things that have something in common, but does not use "like" or "as"?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Irony

What gives non-human things human qualities or characteristics

• Irony

• Imagery

• Personification

• Hyperbole

What is visually descriptive, sensory language

• Irony

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Imagery

What is language that signifies opposite meaning?

• Irony

• Imagery

• Allusion

• Metaphor

What is an indirect or passing reference?

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Imagery

• Irony

"She's as cold as ice." is an example of which type of figurative language

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Simile

• Irony

"I'm so hungry I could eat an elephant" is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Irony