Figurative Language #1

Match the following words and definitions

• An exaggeration that can not possibly be true

• Hyperbole

• Two unlike things being compared

• Methaphor

• Two unlike things being compared using like or as

• Simile

Match the following words and examples

• Ms. Taylor is like a ray of sunshine

• Metaphor

• Ms. Taylor makes me a million times more happy

• Hyperbole

• Ms. Taylor is a ray of sunshine

• Simile

Match the following words and definitions

• Repeating the same consonant sound in a series of words

• Personification

• Giving human qualities to something nonhuman

• Alliteration

• Referring to place, person or event that is well known

• Allusion

Match the following words and examples

• Ms. Taylor's kryptonite is sour candy

• Alliteration

• Ms. Taylor's computer whined when she was still not done typing

• Allusion

• Ms. Taylor's class constantly complains about creating art

• Personification

Match the following words and definitions

• Words that make the sound they describe

• Onomatopoeia

• A phrase that means something else when put together

• Idiom

• A reference to a person, place or event that is well known

• Allusion

Match the following words and examples

• The bird chirped in Ms. Taylor's ear

• Idiom

• Ms. Taylor told the class to kill two birds with one stone by writing and studying at the same time

• Allusion

• Ms. Taylor did not want to open Pandora's box and get the class off task

• Onomatoploeia