Figurative Language

What is a metaphor?

• A word that makes the sound it represents

• A comparison of two unrelated things that says one thing is the other

• An exaggerated statement

"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room."

What is being personified?

• The walls

• The scream

• The room

• The orange

"I caught a fish as big as a house," is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Personification

• A simile

• A hyperbole

Which is an example of personification?

• A rose by any other name is just as sweet

• The white clouds raced swiftly across the sky

• That is the ugliest car that I ever saw.

"Life is a journey" is an example of what?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

I nearly died laughing is an example of what?

• Metaphor

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Define hyperbole.

• An overused phrase

• Its raining cats and dogs

• An over (excessive) exaggeration

• A comparison of two unlike things, using like or as

Giving human characteristics to nonhuman object or animals is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

He has been walking for days and days, when he has only been walking for 5 minutes is an example of:

• Idiom

• Simile

• Cliche

• Hyperbole

"Her eyes were like a deep ocean filled with endless mystery." This is an example of ____________________.

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification
• Structure