figurative language review

“Cars come and go like frantic ants.”

• personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Allusion

Identify the sentence that does NOT use HYPERBOLE.

• During PE today, I ran 10,000 miles!

• I jumped a mile in the air when I saw that snake in my yard!

• I screamed when my brother jumped out from behind the door!

• I cried a ten million tears during that movie!

Identify the following sentence that contains PERSONIFICATION.

• The book fell out of my hands.

• I dropped the book as I was walking.

• The book jumped out of my hands.

• I lost my balance, and the books plunged to the floor.

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

• Personification

• A simile

• A hyperbole

"The stars in the sky winked," is an example of what?

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• personification

What does the figurative language in the following sentence mean?

Dan Morgan had been grinning from ear to ear about this field trip since his first week of school.

• He had a mask hanging on his ears.

• He was happy.

• His smile was so large it almost reached his ears.

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

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

Dan Morgan had been grinning from ear to ear about this field trip since his first week of school

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Sarah was so quiet that she had an absent presence.

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Metaphor

There is a weight on his shoulder dragging him down.

What type of figurative language is this an example of?

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personficiation

• simile