Figurative Language (Color by Number)

What is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words?

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Juxtaposition

What is the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form?

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Juxtaposition

What is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable without using the words, "like" or "as"?

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Juxtaposition

What is exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally?

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Juxtaposition

What is the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect?

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Juxtaposition

What is visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work?

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Juxtaposition

The following lines from "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe is an example of which type of figurative language: "While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,/As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door."

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Juxtaposition

The following lines from Michael Jackson's song THRILLER is an example of which type of figurative language: "You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it/You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes/You're paralyzed"?

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Juxtaposition

The following lines from MONSTERS ARE DUE ON MAPLE STREET by Rod Serling is an example of which type of figurative language? "Maple Street was a bedlam. It was an outdoor asylum for the insane."

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Juxtaposition

The following lines from "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe is an example of which type of figurative language? "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat."

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Juxtaposition