figurative language

Under bad weather.

• idiom

• onomatotopia

• imagery

• simile

Answer explanation

Idiom: really means to not feel well :(

The story jumped off the page.

• idiom

• imagery

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

Answer explanation

personification because you are giving human qualities to the book. "jumped"

Spill the beans.

• idiom

• imagery

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Answer explanation

Idiom: Really means to reveal the secret.

The sun smiled down on us.

• personification

• idiom

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Answer explanation

Personification because you are giving human qualities to the sun. "smile"

The light danced on the surface of the water.

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

Answer explanation

personification because you are giving human qualities to the water. "danced"

Match the following Figurative Terms:

• Metaphor

• repetition of the same sound at the beginning of 2 or more words that are next to each other.

• Hperbole

• compares 2 things by saying one thing is the other

• Simile

• uses the words like or as to compare 2 things.

• Alliteration

• a deliberate and obvious extreme exaggeration

Match the following Figurative Language:

• giving human qualities or characteristics to something nonhuman

• idiom

• a word that sounds like the word it describes

• onomatopoeia

• an expression or an everyday saying, that is not meant to be taken literally

• personification

• when a writer uses great detail to describe something, usually creating a mental image or feeling.

• imagery

Break a leg.

• idiom

• personification

• imagery

• metaphor

Answer explanation

idiom because it really means good luck.

Pull someone's leg.

• personification

• idiom

• simile

• metaphor

Answer explanation

idiom because it really means to be kidding around.

Once in a blue moon.

• idiom

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

Answer explanation

idiom because it really means to happen rarely. Blue moon don't happen often.