Figurative Language

Which answer below is an example of personification?

• The ocean waved at us as we walked on the beach.

• She slept like a baby.

• SHHH!

• I have told you to clean your room a thousand times!

Which answer below is an example of a hyperbole?

• Time is money.

• BOOM!

• I had to walk a million miles to get here.

• He was feeling kind of blue today.

Which answer below is an example of an alliteration?

• Danny walked his dog at the park.

• We walked to the store yesterday.

• My mom helped me with my homework.

• Gary grumpily gathered the garbage.

Which answer below is an example of a simile?

• I like ice cream.

• ZOOM!

• The classroom was a zoo.

• Her eyes were as blue as the sea.

A comparison of two unlike things using "as" or "like"

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• alliteration

• simile

Giving human characteristics or qualities to an object, idea, or even an animal 

• onomatopoeia 
• sensory detail
• hyperbole 
• personification 

"I do not like green eggs and ham.

I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.

I would not like them here or there.

I would not like them anywhere."

What is the external rhyme scheme?

• ABCD

• AABB

• ABAB

Offset! Gon' whip it, intermission, let the birds fly

I get money, tunnel vision through my third eye

In that skillet, watch me flip it like it's Five Guys

Look at my pilgrim, check out the ceilin', look at the blue sky

• ABBC

• AABA

When you wish upon a star,

makes no difference who you are,

anything you heart desires will come to you

• AAB

• AAA

______ is the feeling the poet is trying to convey.

• Mood

• Meter

• Theme

• Poet