Figurative Language

Simile or Metaphor:The city is a sea of sadness.

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• alliteration

What does this mean? When my great uncles drives, he is as slow as a turtle. 

• Very slow

• moves pretty quickly

• still beats everyone

• he's super fast

What's the meaning of this simile? "My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."

• Her hair is red.

• She talks really loudly.

• She gets really angry. 

• She spits when she talks. 

Language in which the words mean exactly what they say is...

• figurative

• literal

A comparison of two unlike things using LIKE or AS.

• Hyperbola

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

. 

A comparison of two unlike things stating that one thing IS the other.

• idiom

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

On the way up north to the cabin, the sunshine sits in my lap all morning. 

This is an example of: 

• Personification

• simile

• metaphor

Simile or Metaphor: My sister is like an angel in my life.

• simile

• metaphor

Personification

• Sound or movement

• Repetition

• Means what it means but not literally

• Giving human emotion to a non-living thing.

Metaphor

• Comparison using like or as

• Comparing two unlike things as the same

• Comparison not using like or as

• Means what it means, but not literally.