FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE 2023

Match the following terms to their definitions:

• giving human characteristics to nonhumans

• Onomatopoeia

• sound words

• Personification

• a direct comparison using like or as

• Simile

• a direct comparison of unlike things (using is/are)

• Metaphor

Match the following terms with their definitions:

• an extreme exaggeration

• Hyperbole

• repeated consonant sounds

• imagery

• a phrase that means something different than its official meaning

• idiom

• using descriptive words to paint a picture

• alliteration

Which of the following is a figurative expression?

• The car is blue.

• He caught the football.

• I've got your back.

• He was racing to the finish line.

All the beautiful stars of the sky, The

silver doves of the forest of Night,

Over the dull earth swarm and fly,

Companions of our flight.

-James Thomson

What two things are being compared in the

metaphor above?

• Stars and Sky

• birds and companions

• stars and birds

• night and flight

We will rush ever on without fear; Let

the goal be far, the flight be fleet! For we

carry the Heavens with us, dear,

While the Earth slips from our feet!

-James Thomson

Fear, far, flight, fleet, feet... is an example of what type of figurative language?

•  Alliteration

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

We will rush ever on without fear; Let

the goal be far, the flight be fleet! For we

carry the Heavens with us, dear,

While the Earth slips from our feet!

-James Thomson

Fear, far, flight, fleet, feet... is an example of what type of figurative language?

•  Alliteration

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

 Life without love is a year without Summer

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The line above is an example of which figurative language?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

...all the memories that hang upon

And cling around about us as a garment,

Clothing us in a robe of more than glory...

-Edgar Allen Poe

The memories cling around us as a garment

(clothing) is an example of...

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

 The leaves fly over the window and

utter a word as they pass...

-D. H. Lawrence

This is an example of which figurative language?

•  personification

• alliteration

• simile

• hyperbole

My father was the sun and the moon to me. 

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

• metaphor