Figurative Language Review

What is figurative language?

• Language that has one literal meaning

• Language that uses extremely advanced vocabulary

• Language with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation

• Language that communicates complicated concepts and ideas

This term means to use a strong exaggeration:

• personification
• idiom
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole

What is alliteration?

• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• a phrase that means something else than what it says
• repeating the same initial sound in several words
• a contradictory phrase

Giving human characteristics to non-human subjects

• alliteration

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

The use of words to imitate sounds; sound words

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• none of the above

An ______________ is a phrase or saying that means something other than what it actually says.

• hyperbole

• idiom

• personification

• metaphor

What is a simile?

• A comparison of two things not using "like" or "as"

• A comparison of two things that uses "like" or "as"

• A person, place or thing

• A phrase that says one thing but means another

What is verbal irony?

• when the speaker says one thing and means the opposite

• a contrast between what a character expects and what really happens

• the reader or viewer knows more than the characters

• none of the above

A device in literature where an object represents an idea.

• symbolism

• simile

• metaphor

• understatement

Allusion is defined as______

• Two lines working as a unit
• A reference to a famous  person, place, or event
• A form of wordplay with similar sounding sounds
• Words that involve one of the five senses