Figurative Language Review/Try-It Out!

Which figure of speech compares two different things using the words like or as?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Which figurative langauge is a common expression that does not mean what it literally says, like "You're driving me up a wall."

• Personification

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

Which figurative language is a word or phrase that can be read forward or backward?

• Oxymoron

• Palindrome

• Anagram

• Pun

Which figure of speech is the naming of a thing or action by imitation of natural sounds --> a "sound word"?

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  Alliteration

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

What is the definition of HYPERBOLE?

• Writing which gives nonhuman objects, human qualities

• An extreme exaggeration

• A word or phrase that can be read forward or backward

• Comparing two unlike things NOT using the words like or as

A figure of speech that is similar to a simile; it compare two unlike things but does NOT use the words like or as is called a what?

• metaphor

• simile

• allusion

• alliteration

What is the definition of ALLITERATION?

• an extreme exaggeration

• an implied or indirect reference, especially in literature "hinting"

• a play on words

• the repetition of a sound at the beginning of two or more neighboring words

A figure of speech that combines two opposing or contradictory ideas, such as "pretty ugly" is called what?

• oxymoron

• palindrome

• puns

• allusion

Writing which gives nonhuman objects human qualities is called what?

• alliteration

• personification

• allusion

• oxymoron

An ALLUSION is defined as what?

• comparing two unlike things using the words like or as

• a word or phrase that can be read forward or backward

• a play on words

• an implied or indirect reference in literature *hinting