figurative language review

“Cars come and go like frantic ants.”

• personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Allusion

Identify the figurative language technique below that means COMPARING 2 OBJECTS USING "LIKE" OR "AS"

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

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.

"Bubba's belch was as big and boisterous as a bullhorn."

What TWO kinds of figurative language are used?

• alliteration and metaphor

• personification and metaphor

• alliteration and simile

• personification and simile

"He was so deadly in fact that his enemies would go blind from overexposure to pure awesomeness!"

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Verbal Irony

“That was today?” asked Scar, acting surprised. “Oh, I feel simply awful.”

• Allusion

• Verbal Irony

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

If you only eat Left Twix, then you and I are on the same page.

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

Iron Man broke down the wall with a crash!

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Verbal Irony

• Personification

Define "Figurative Language"

• the use of words that look the same, but have different meaning

• drawing what you mean

• phrasing that goes beyond the literal meaning of words to get a message or point across

• writing paragraphs to form a particular shape or pattern

"Life is pain," Westley said to Buttercup.

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Metaphor