Figurative Language

A figure of speech that gives human qualities or attributes to non-human or inanimate object.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Synecdoche

It involves a deliberate exaggeration used for effect.

• Metonymy

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Paradox

It is a direct address to someone absent, long dead, or even to an inanimate objects or ideas.

• Apostrophe

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:

The water angrily flowed towards the sea.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:

I am so hungry I can eat a mountain.

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:

The gushing wind blew through the trees.

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence:

That person runs like a road-runner.

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Personification

1. The man fights like a lion on the soccer field.

• a. metaphor

• b. simile

• c. irony

• d. personification

2. She is as sweet as her grandmother.

• a. metaphor

• b. personification

• c. simile

• d. alliteration

4. Time is money.

• a. metaphor

• b. simile

• c. personification

• d. hyperbole