Figurative language 1

What is a simile?

• Comparing two unlike things using as, like, or than

• An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally

• Words that sound like their meaning

• A comparison between two things not using like or as

An exaggerated statement is a...

• Alliteration

• Onomatopeia

• Simile

• Hyperbole

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison that does not use like, as, or than

• the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• A comparison that does use like, as, or than

• words that sound like their meaning

Giving some non-human thing qualities of a human is...

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Alliteration

What is the following statement an example of?
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly

• Simile
• Metaphor

What is the following statement an example of?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?

• Simile
• Metaphor

What is the following statement an example of?
The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key.

• Simile
• Metaphor

My stomach did a backflip.

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• onomatopoeia

She wasn't exactly running in the same circles as me.

• alliteration
• repetition
• idiom
• hyperbole

Time flies by! 

• idiom
• simile
• onomatopoeia
• metaphor