Figurative Language

What is an example of a simile?

• Maria entered the room as quiet as a mouse.

• Your baby is a cutie like a panda.

• Jimmy eats like a pig!

• I'm so hungry, I could eat a house!

What is a Hyperbole?

• An extreme exaggeration.

• When an object or animal acts like a person.

• Very/extremely quiet.

• Comparison that does not use "like" or "as."

What is an example of Personification?

• Jimmy eats like a pig!

• Your baby is a cutie like a panda.

• Maria entered the room as quiet as a mouse.

• The stars winked at the people below.

Yesenia is as bright as the sun!

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• None of the above

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

A word that sounds like the noise it describes

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

Match the following

• She sold silver shoes on Sunday.

• Alliteration

• The assignment was a breeze

• Simile

• The baby is as cute as a button

• Hyperbole

• The sun is so hot it’s going to melt my skin off!

• Metaphor

allusion

• the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g. cuckoo, sizzle ).

• an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

• a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

• a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ).

Which figurative device gives objects a deeper meaning?

• Symbolism

• hyperbole

• simile

• personification

"Her heart is like gold," is an example of what?

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• personification