What is figurative language? Select all that applies

• Language that uses words or expressions that are different from what is actually meant.

• Language that makes reading more interesting.

• Language that makes writing more interesting.

When you give human characteristics to something not human, it is called (a)   .

• hyperbole
• personification
• rhyme
• allusion

Match the following sentences with their correct literary device.

• She sells sea shells by the sea shore.

• simile

• A comparison using 'like' or 'as'

• hyperbole

• An exaggeration for effect

• pun

• A play on words

• alliteration

What does the following sentence really mean?

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

• If you eat right, you won't need to go to the doctor as often.

• You should bring apples to the doctor's office with you.

• Doctors are afraid of apples.

• You should eat nothing but apples every day.

Match the following literary devices with their correct examples.

• "Kick the bucket"

• alliteration

• "As busy as a bee"

• simile

• "She sells seashells by the seashore"

• idiom

• "The house shivered as snow fell on its roof"

• personification

Match the following sounds with their correct literary term.

• crash, boom, bang

• alliteration

• time and rhyme

• rhyme

• sweet birds sang softly

• simile

• like a leaf blowing in the wind

• onomatopoeia

Match the following figures of speech with their correct examples.

• The wind whispered through the trees.

• onomatopoeia

• This school is an asylum.

• simile

• Her cheeks are like roses.

• personification

• The bees buzzed.

• metaphor

"The stars in the sky winked," is an example of (a)   .

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Onomatopoeia
• Personification

(a)   is NOT an example of onomatopoeia.

• buzz
• meow
• book
• splat

(a)   is the sun in my life; she means everything to me.

• Ava is yellow.
• Ava is standing on the roof.
• Ava is important to me.