Figurative Language Simile, Metaphor, Idiom, and Personification

What is the definition of personification?

• Describing non-human things with human characteristics

• A phrase that means something different from what it says

• A comparison of two things using "like" or "as"

• Describing something by comparing it to something else that may share some characteristics

What is the definition of a metaphor?

• A phrase that means something different from what it says

• Describing something by comparing it to something else that may share some characteristics

• Describing non-human things with human characteristics

• A comparison of two things using "like" or "as"

Choose the correct figurative language for this sentence:

Mary was busy as a bee.

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

• Simile

What is the definition of an idiom?

• Describing non-human things with human characteristics

• Describing something by comparing it to something else that may share some characteristics

• A comparison of two things using "like" or "as"

• A phrase that means something different from what it says

Choose the correct figurative language for this sentence:

The snow is a white blanket covering the world.

• Idiom

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

What is the definition of a simile?

• Describing non-human things with human characteristics

• A phrase that means something different from what it says

• Describing something by comparing it to something else that may share some characteristics

• A comparison of two things using "like" or "as"

Choose the correct figurative language for this sentence:

She had a green thumb.

• Simile

• Personification

• Idiom

• Metaphor

Choose the correct figurative language for this sentence:

The story jumped off the page.

• Personification

• Simile

• Idiom

• Metaphor

What does this sentence mean:

He was as tall as a giraffe.

• He was a giraffe

• He owns a giraffe

• He is tall

• The giraffe is tall

What does this sentence mean:

Her tears were a river.

• There was a river

• She was crying near a river

• She was crying because there was a river

• She cried a lot