Figurative Language Definitions

A comparison using “like” or “as”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Idiom

Answer explanation

Ms. Norton is as tall as a tree!

an exaggeration

• Onomatopoeia

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

Answer explanation

I have a million things to do today!

A comparison NOT using “like” or “as”

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

Answer explanation

Taniyah is a beautiful, birthday princess!

a type of word that sounds like what it describes

• Idiom

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

Answer explanation

BOOM!, SMACK!,CRASH!

The repetition of first letter(or sound) at the beginning of each word, in a group of words.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Alliteration

Answer explanation

Peter Piper Picker a Pack of Pickled Peppers, in his Pickle Pepper Patch.

An expression that doesn’t exactly mean what the words say

• Idiom

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Answer explanation

“Break a leg in the play tonight!”