figurative language

“Cars come and go like frantic ants.”

• personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Allusion

“I tell her of my father’s great herd, and how they would graze each day, walking for miles, the sun in our bones, the grass whispering its shy music.”

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

Has words that represent a sound.

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

What type of figurative language being used in the following sentence?

The runner was a turtle in the race, and they ended up in last place.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

Sound words

• Simile

• Onomatopeia

• Idiom

• Alliteration

What is a metaphor?

• Giving human traits to animal or non-living things

• Comparison using like or as

• Extreme exaggeration

• Comparison without like or as

The lightning danced across the sky during the storm.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

What does the sentence below actually mean?

Lightning danced across the sky.

• The lightning was at a dance party.

• There was no lightning in the sky.

• There was a lot of lightning in the sky during a storm.

• The lightning was bad at dancing.

The wind whispered softly outside the open window.

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

Bang, pop, gurgle, slap

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration