Unit 2: Figurative Language and Folktale Quiz

What is Figurative Language ?

• Figurative language is when you say what you mean and do not compare or overexaggerate

• Figurative Language is used to compare, exaggerate, understate, or over state a situation

• Language used to compare using like or as

• Figurative Language is a phrase used to describe a particular thing while comparing it to another

_____________ are stories told through oral tradition and are passed down through generations.

• Fairy tales

• Memoirs

• Narratives

• Folktales

These stories contain magical elements. They typically do not give a definite setting and will begin with "Once upon a time". There are characters like wizards, goblins, talking animals, and princesses

• Tall Tale

• Fable

• Fairy Tale

• Legend

A _______ is a story that uses personification for the main characters and teaches a moral or lesson. An example would be the Ugly Duckling.

Identify the Oxymoron(s)

• Jumbo Shrimp

• Cute as a button

• BOOM !

• Light-heavyweight

What figurative language uses repeating consonants and/ or sounds?

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Metaphor

What does a folktale usually contain ?

• Diagrams

• Pictures

• No conflict

• A moral/ lesson

Which type of figurative language is being used:

"She was awfully nice "

• Similie

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Idiom

Words or phrases in which contradictory or opposite terms are used together

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Grammar

• Oxymoron

An exaggerated story with unbelievable elements often based on real events; they can also be entirely fictional.

• Legends

• Myths

• Tall Tales

• Fairy Tales